Surround

/səˈɹaʊnd/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
2. (transitive) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
4. (British) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.

Example Sentences

The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.

It took a long time for the place to warm up and to counteract the cold and enable their fingers to cope with the delicate task of moulding, the men would often surround themselves with blocks of iron heated in the furnace.

Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.

and this way they get rid of those grand and stubborn opinions that surround them.

The superficial fascia surrounds the body and includes subcutaneous fat; the deep fascia surrounds the musculoskeletal system; the meningeal fascia surrounds the nervous system; the visceral fascia surrounds body cavities and organs.

The lions surrounded the deer herd so they had no way to escape.

They surrounded each other in the classroom and started trading hits.

to surround the world

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• surrounds
• surrounding
• surrounded

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