Definition of Surround

1. Noun. The area in which something exists or lives. "The country--the flat agricultural surround"


2. Verb. Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. "The forest surrounds my property"
Exact synonyms: Border, Environ, Ring, Skirt
Generic synonyms: Adjoin, Contact, Meet, Touch
Specialized synonyms: Fringe, Gird, Girdle, Cloister, Close In, Enclose, Inclose, Shut In, Hem In, Cloister
Derivative terms: Border, Border, Border, Surroundings

3. Verb. Envelop completely. "The wind storms surround the area with dust and dirt"; "Smother the meat in gravy"
Exact synonyms: Smother
Generic synonyms: Cover

4. Verb. Surround so as to force to give up. "The Turks besieged Vienna"
Exact synonyms: Beleaguer, Besiege, Circumvent, Hem In
Generic synonyms: Assail, Attack
Specialized synonyms: Blockade, Seal Off, Ebb
Derivative terms: Besieger

5. Verb. Surround with a wall in order to fortify.
Exact synonyms: Fence, Fence In, Palisade, Wall
Generic synonyms: Protect
Specialized synonyms: Stockade, Circumvallate
Derivative terms: Fence, Palisade, Wall, Wall, Wall
Also: Wall In, Wall Up

Definition of Surround

1. v. t. To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.

2. n. A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.

Definition of Surround

1. to extend completely around [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Surround

surrendered
surrenderer
surrendering
surrenders
surreptitious
surreptitiously
surrey
surreys
surrogacies
surrogacy
surrogate
surrogated
surrogates
surrogate mother
surrogating
surround (current term)
surrounded
surrounding
surrounding(a)
surroundings
surrounds
surroyal
surroyals
sursum corda
surtax
surtaxed
surtaxes
surtaxing
surtitle
surtitles

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