Surround

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle.
  • v. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication.
  • n. Something, such as fencing or a border, that surrounds: a fireplace surround.
  • n. The area around a thing or place: inflammation extending to the surround of the eye.
  • n. Surroundings; environment: "It was the country, the flat agricultural surround, that so ravished me” ( Listener).
  • n. A method of hunting wild animals by surrounding them and driving them to a place from which they cannot escape.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To encircle or simultaneously extend on all sides of something.
  • v. To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
  • n. Anything, such as a fence or border that surrounds something.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
  • v. To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle.
  • v. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
  • v. To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city.
  • n. A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To overflow; inundate.
  • To encompass; environ; inclose on all sides, as a body of troops, surrounded by hostile forces, so as to cut off communication or retreat; invest, as a fortified place: as, to surround a city; to surround a detachment of the enemy.
  • To form an inclosure round; environ; encircle: as, a wall or ditch surrounds the city.
  • To make the circuit of; circumnavigate.
  • Synonyms To fence in, coop up.
  • To overflow.
  • n. A method of hunting some animals, such as buffaloes, by surrounding them and driving them over a precipice, or into a deep ravine or other place from which they cannot escape.
  • n. A cordon of hunters formed for the purpose of capturing animals by surrounding and driving them.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the area in which something exists or lives
  • v. surround with a wall in order to fortify
  • v. extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
  • v. surround so as to force to give up
  • v. envelop completely
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cover   
    Cross Reference
    invest    inclosed   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    invest    encircle    environ    encompass    fence about    hem in    circumnavigate    circle    enclose    compass   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Pound    Sound    abound    aground    around    astound    bound    browned    compound    confound   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    outlying    inland    hilly    marshy    adjacent    snow-covered    uninhabited    northwestern    neighbouring    populous