'encirclement' definitions:
Definition of 'encirclement'
From: WordNet
noun
A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy [syn: blockade, encirclement]
Synonyms of 'encirclement'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aerial tactics,
- airborne tactics,
- applied tactics,
- armored tactics,
- barrier tactics,
- beleaguerment,
- besiegement,
- blockade,
- blockading,
- cavalry tactics,
- cincture,
- circling,
- circumambience,
- circumambiency,
- circumcincture,
- circumflexion,
- circumjacence,
- circumposition,
- containment,
- defensive strategy,
- diversion,
- embracement,
- encincture,
- enclosure,
- encompassment,
- enfoldment,
- envelopment,
- environment,
- feint,
- fire tactics,
- girding,
- girdling,
- inclusion,
- infantry tactics,
- infiltration,
- investment,
- involvement,
- mob tactics,
- mobile tactics,
- pincer movement,
- pincers movement,
- shock tactics,
- siege,
- strategy,
- surrounding,
- tactics,
- vertical envelopment