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• v  form a circle around
  encircle the errors
• v  bind with something round or circular

• The StreetStyle phones wrap around the back of the head and encircle the ear loosely.
• Many times, in fact, the cartel will encircle their marijuana plots with deadly booby-traps, such as buried spikes or shotgun shells attached to a trip-wire.
• As Israeli troops encircle Gaza City, their commanders are faced with a painful dilemma: How far must they advance into the deadly labyrinth of slums and refugee camps where Hamas .

• circle
• gird

News & Articles

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• Easter Island's Walking Heads
  An idea suggesting massive stone statues that encircle Easter Island may have been walked into place has run into controversy.
  June 10, 2013 - Fox News
• Did Easter Island's famous statues 'walk' into place?
  An idea suggesting massive stone statues that encircle Easter Island may have been "walked" into place has run into controversy.In October 2012, researchers came up with the "walking" theory by creating a 5-ton replica of one of the statues (or "moai"), and actually moving it in an upright position, and have published a more thorough justification in the June issue of the Journal of ...
  June 8, 2013 - MSNBC
• Easter Island's 'Walking' Stone Heads Stir Debate
  An idea suggesting massive stone statues that encircle Easter Island may have been "walked" into place has run into controversy.
  June 8, 2013 - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Chamlong Srimuang in Denver Post
  This is urgent. If you want to join us, go help our friends in Suvarnabhumi,Chamlong said in a speech televised on the anti-government television station ASTV. "We are going to encircle police when they try and shut our friends out from...
• Evan Vucci in Bemidji Pioneer
  The police had pushed the protesters into a parking lot where they had police coming from all sides to encircle one area,Vucci said. "Once they got all the protesters into this one parking lot they kind of rushed and arrested all the...
• Bashar Assad in Hindu
  Speaking on the conflict between Georgia and Russia over Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia, Mr. Assad said: "On this issue we fully support Russia. The war, which was unleashed by Georgia, is the culmination of attempts to encircle and...