encirclement

The report however claimed that “in the last two weeks, only four groups of seven to 18 people have left the encirclement.”

He reached the misty outskirts of the mass and began its encirclement, drawing a little nearer to its center with every circuit.

The Greek frontier was a feeble protection, and the French at Kavadar were threatened with encirclement on their left.

A Turco-Korean alliance would have meant for China a sort of encirclement that might have grave consequences.

He thought about how terribly vulnerable to attack Pallastown seemed, even with its encirclement of outriding guard stations.

The English "arrangement" consisted in the encirclement of Germany.