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compassingverbpresent participle of compass to carry through (as a process) to completionattempting more than his modest abilities could compass accomplishing, achieving, bringing off, carrying off, carrying out, committing, doing, executing, following through (with), fulfilling, making, negotiating, performing, perpetrating, prosecuting, pulling off, putting through bringing about, effecting, effectuating, implementingacing, nailingengaging (in), practicing(also practising)working (at)reduplicating, reenacting, repeatingactualizing, attaining, realizingcompleting, ending, finishing, winding up going through failingskimping, slighting, slurring to travel completely aroundthe great age of exploration, when ships of sail compassed the earth circling, circuiting, circumnavigating, circumventing, encircling, girdling, orbiting, ringing, rounding circumambulating, crossing, perambulating, traversing to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful endsthe rebels are compassing the assassination of the king colluding, conniving, conspiring, contriving, intriguing, machinating, plotting, putting up, scheming counterplottingbrewing, concocting, cooking (up), devising, hatchingengineering, jockeying, maneuvering, manipulatingdesigning, framing, laying out, mapping, planning, shaping to form a circle arounda mysterious isle, compassed by treacherous seas circling, embracing, encircling, enclosing(also inclosing), encompassing, environing, girding, girdling, ringing, surrounding, wreathing circumscribing, closing in, cordoning (off), fencing (in), hemming (in), wallingbesetting, besieging, entrenching(also intrenching), investing, swarming to have a clear idea ofthe concept that the earth is billions of years old is one that the average mind struggles to compass appreciating, apprehending, assimilating, beholding, catching, catching on (to), cognizing, comprehending, conceiving, cottoning (to or on to), deciphering, decoding, digging, discerning, getting, grasping, grokking, intuiting, knowing, making, making out, perceiving, recognizing, registering, savvying, seeing, seizing, sensing, tumbling (to), twigging, understanding absorbing, digesting, taking inrealizingfathoming, penetrating, piercing picking up on missing misapprehending, misconceiving, misconstruing, misinterpreting, misperceiving, misreading, mistaking, misunderstanding |