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.