The Clue
Surrounded (9 letter answer)
The Answer
ENCIRCLED
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Notes
The answer ENCIRCLED is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
ENCIRCLE as a verb:
1. (surround, environ, encircle, circle, round, ring) = be around; "Developments surround the town"; "The river encircles the village"
2. (encircle, circle) = form a circle around; "encircle the errors"
3. (gird, encircle) = bind with something round or circular
ENCIRCLED as an adjective:
1. (surrounded, encircled) = confined on all sides; "a camp surrounded by enemies"; "the encircled pioneers"
2. enclosed within a circle; "the encircled camp was complete cut off"
3. (encircled, ringed, wreathed) = adorned or crowned with a circlet; sometimes used as combining forms; "a brow encircled with laurel"; "wreathed in an extraordinary luminescence"; "ringed round with daisies"; "smoke-wreathed"