adorned or crowned with a circlet; sometimes used as combining forms; "a brow encircled with laurel"; "wreathed in an extraordinary luminescence"; "ringed round with daisies"; "smoke-wreathed"
To encircle something or someone means to surround or enclose them, or to go round them. A forty-foot-high concrete wall encircles the jail = surround. to surround someone or something completely