Synonyms for encirclement
en·cir·clement

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1. blockade, encirclementnoun

   a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy

   Synonyms:
   blockade

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1. • Military
   • Military Action

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1. List of paraphrases for "encirclement":

   siege, containment

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1. Genevieve Casagrande:

   They are setting conditions for the full encirclement of the city.

2. Josef Stalin:

   We shall not make this public, the capitalist encirclement continues.

3. Sam Cranny-Evans:

   The Southern Military District -- in Donetsk, Luhansk, Mariupol, Berdyansk, Melitopol -- these are the best troops in the Russian army. And they always work. They're designed to fight NATO, so the forces that were committed to the Kyiv encirclement suggests that it was a goal that either Russia thought would be easily achieved, or they overestimated the capabilities of those forces. So that leads, in part, to the conclusion that an encirclement of the Ukrainian troops in the JFO is part of the goal that Russia is looking to achieve. And the movements of Russian forces do seem to suggest that that is the case.

4. Stephen Townsend:

   We don’t have a complete encirclement of Mosul.