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compassedverbpast tense of compass to carry through (as a process) to completionattempting more than his modest abilities could compass accomplished, achieved, brought off, carried off, carried out, committed, did, executed, followed through (with), fulfilled, made, negotiated, performed, perpetrated, prosecuted, pulled off, put through brought about, effected, effectuated, implementedaced, nailedengaged (in), practiced(also practised)worked (at)reduplicated, reenacted, repeatedactualized, attained, realizedcompleted, ended, finished, wound up(also winded up) went through failedskimped, slighted, slurred to travel completely aroundthe great age of exploration, when ships of sail compassed the earth circled, circuited, circumnavigated, circumvented, encircled, girdled, orbited, ringed, rounded circumambulated, crossed, perambulated, traversed to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful endsthe rebels are compassing the assassination of the king colluded, connived, conspired, contrived, intrigued, machinated, plotted, put up, schemed counterplottedbrewed, concocted, cooked (up), devised, hatchedengineered, jockeyed, maneuvered, manipulateddesigned, framed, laid out, mapped, planned, shaped to form a circle arounda mysterious isle, compassed by treacherous seas circled, embraced, encircled, enclosed(also inclosed), encompassed, environed, girded(or girt), girdled, ringed, surrounded, wreathed circumscribed, closed in, cordoned (off), fenced (in), hemmed (in), walledbeset, besieged, entrenched(also intrenched), invested, swarmed to have a clear idea ofthe concept that the earth is billions of years old is one that the average mind struggles to compass appreciated, apprehended, assimilated, beheld, caught, caught on (to), cognized, comprehended, conceived, cottoned (to or on to), deciphered, decoded, discerned, dug, got, grasped, grokked, intuited, knew, made, made out, perceived, recognized, registered, savvied, saw, seized, sensed, tumbled (to), twigged, understood absorbed, digested, took inrealizedfathomed, penetrated, pierced picked up on missed misapprehended, misconceived, misconstrued, misinterpreted, misperceived, misread, mistook, misunderstood |