Compassing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COMPASSING in dictionary:

VERB:
• go round (something) in a circular course
• surround or hem in on all sides
• contrive to accomplish (something)
NOUN:
• contrivance, design
• an instrument containing a magnetized pointer which shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it
• an instrument for drawing circles and arcs and measuring distances between points, consisting of two arms linked by a movable joint, one arm ending in a point and the other usually carrying a pencil or pen
• the range or scope of something
• the enclosing limits of an area
• the range of notes that can be produced by a voice or a musical instrument
ADJECTIVE:
• Curved; bent; as, compassing timbers.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to go around

Words related to COMPASSING

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How to use COMPASSING in a sentence

• They still aimed at preventing his marriage, and compassing his death.
• All hope of compassing it now rests on the life of the child.
• Her whole being became absorbed in a desire for revenge, her thoughts by day being occupied by schemes for compassing his death, her dreams by night being reddened by his blood.
• Nature is profligate both in spawning life and compassing its destruction.
• And desirous of compassing the destruction of the wicked Kichaka, the illustrious Bhima gnashed his teeth in rage.
• Four days before the murder, while they were deliberating on the mode of compassing it, he went into Mr.
• The houses compassing the ground Rattled their windows at the sound.
• Later, when Burr was the choice of congress as minister to Paris, backed especially by Madison and Monroe, Hamilton succeeded in compassing his defeat.
• See how it appeared to us at several views as we were compassing the east and south-east and south of it, to get to the road, on the south-west of it, and the road itself.
• Convenience, depredation, the compassing of by-ends, rather than any loving communion, is too often its intent.
• He retired to his camp and in a short time soldiers appeared with tape, stakes, sledges and spades and laid out an immense circle, all but compassing the great city of Jerusalem.
• An angel drove them back, 1540 Compassing all the town with gleaming fire, With savage flames.
• It was out of the question, with my finances, for me to think of compassing the train.

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