Thesaurus results for RINGED

ringed

verb

Definition of ringed

past tense of ring

as in surrounded

to form a circle around tall cypress trees ringing the park

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as in circled

to travel completely around the line of season ticket buyers ringed the block

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Recent Examples of ringed Where to Stay The anchor property that started it all, ringed with trees and replete with villas. — Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2026 Rent from Kayak Branson to paddle around Lake Taneycomo or Table Rock Lake, both ringed with golden hickory and oak trees. — Taryn Shorr-McKee, Midwest Living, 26 Aug. 2026 The fire began Saturday and grew to more than 23 square miles on Sunday across foothills ringed by neighborhoods near the California state line. — Haven Daly, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026 The fire began Saturday and grew to more than 23 square miles (60 square kilometers) on Sunday across foothills ringed by neighborhoods northwest of downtown Reno near the California state line. — ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026 Elevated on an all-wood frame and ringed by tall evergreens, the home feels like a slice of Lake Tahoe in the middle of a dense suburb. — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 15 Aug. 2026 Each of the statues sits on a granite pedestal ringed with 36 stars, representing the states in the Union at the end of the Civil War. — Matt Viser, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2026 Six years after the first vote, the site is still an aging arena ringed by parking lots. — Zack Defazio Farrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2026 The 1-mile loop gains only about 100 feet in elevation and winds through a scenic valley ringed by the massive rock formations that make Joshua Tree instantly recognizable. — Ashley Lynch, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ringed

Verb

The symbolic funeral pyres were surrounded by offerings to Hindu deities as relatives gathered to perform the final rites.

— Shristi Kafle, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
The novel’s little Scottish village, surrounded by forest, feels claustrophobic, isolated, steeped in dread.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of surrounded

Verb

Military helicopter circled overhead, searching for survivors, assessing the disaster and mapping out possible rescue and evacuation routes.

— Shristi Kafle, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
Military helicopters circled overhead, searching for survivors, assessing the disaster and mapping out possible rescue and evacuation routes.

— Niranjan Shrestha, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of circled

Verb

Though the supermassive black hole of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), isn't currently involved in a rpTDE, it is orbited by many rapid stars.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Instead, the museum included Pluto as one of the 300 icy bodies that orbited beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt.

— Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of orbited

Verb

Sting is set to narrate a new documentary portrait of Nino Rota, the Italian composer whose music traversed the worlds of cinema and the concert hall, from Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and 8½ to Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 27 Aug. 2026
The film itself was an odyssey of a shoot, as the cast traversed multiple countries and territories—Scotland, Italy, the Western Sahara, Greece—in all types of weather.

— Wisdom Iheanyichukwu, Vanity Fair, 17 Aug. 2026