Compassing

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  • v. Present participle of compass.
  • adj. curved; bent
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Curved; bent.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In ship-building, incurvated, curved, or bent: as, compassing timbers. See compass, v. t, 6.
  • Word Usage
    "Irritated by this reply, and the contemptuous glance with which it was accompanied, the vindictive triumvirate turned from the king to his court; and having failed in compassing the destruction of Bruce and his more renowned friend, they determined at least to make a wreck of their moral fame."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    curved    bent   
    Verb Stem
    compass