'Surround' definitions:
Definition of 'surround'
From: WordNet
noun
The area in which something exists or lives; "the country-- the flat agricultural surround" [syn: environment, environs, surroundings, surround]
verb
Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property" [syn: surround, environ, ring, skirt, border]
verb
Envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy" [syn: smother, surround]
verb
Surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna" [syn: besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumvent]
verb
Definition of 'Surround'
From: GCIDE
- Surround \Sur*round"\, n. A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc. [U.S.] --Baird. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Surround'
From: GCIDE
- Surround \Sur*round"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surrounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Surrounding.] [OF. suronder to overflow, LL. superundare; fr. L. super over + undare to rise in waves, overflow, fr. unda wave. The English sense is due to the influence of E. round. See Super-, and Undulate, and cf. Abound.]
- 1. To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city. [1913 Webster]
- But could instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world. [Obs.] --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Mil.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'surround'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ambiance,
- ambience,
- atmosphere,
- begird,
- beleaguer,
- beset,
- besiege,
- blockade,
- bound,
- box,
- box in,
- cage,
- carry,
- case,
- chamber,
- circle,
- circle in,
- circuit,
- circuiteer,
- circulate,
- circumambulate,
- circummigrate,
- circumnavigate,
- circumscribe,
- circumvent,
- close,
- close in,
- close the circle,
- come full circle,
- compass,
- compass about,
- comprise,
- confine,
- consume,
- contain,
- coop,
- coop in,
- coop up,
- cordon,
- cordon off,
- corral,
- cover,
- crate,
- cycle,
- define,
- delimit,
- delimitate,
- demarcate,
- describe a circle,
- determine,
- devour,
- dispatch,
- dispose of,
- divide,
- down,
- eat up,
- edge,
- embay,
- embed,
- embosom,
- embox,
- embrace,
- encapsulate,
- encase,
- encircle,
- enclasp,
- enclave,
- enclose,
- encompass,
- enfold,
- enshrine,
- enshroud,
- envelop,
- environ,
- environment,
- environs,
- enwrap,
- extend,
- fence in,
- fix,
- flank,
- fringe,
- get away with,
- get down,
- gird,
- girdle,
- girdle the globe,
- go,
- go about,
- go around,
- go out,
- go round,
- go the round,
- gyre,
- harass,
- harry,
- hedge in,
- hem,
- hem in,
- hold,
- house in,
- impound,
- imprison,
- incarcerate,
- include,
- ingest,
- internalize,
- invest,
- involve,
- jail,
- keep within,
- kennel,
- lap,
- lay off,
- lay siege to,
- leaguer,
- lie,
- limit,
- loop,
- make a circuit,
- margin,
- mark boundaries,
- mark off,
- mark out,
- mark the periphery,
- mew,
- mew up,
- orbit,
- outline,
- pack,
- package,
- pen,
- pen in,
- pocket,
- put away,
- put in,
- quarantine,
- rail in,
- range,
- reach,
- reach out,
- revolve,
- rim,
- ring,
- rope off,
- round,
- run,
- separate,
- set the limit,
- setting,
- sheathe,
- shrine,
- shroud,
- shut in,
- shut up,
- skirt,
- smother,
- soften up,
- span,
- specify,
- spiral,
- spread,
- stable,
- stake out,
- straddle,
- stretch,
- stretch out,
- surroundings,
- swaddle,
- swallow,
- swathe,
- sweep,
- take down,
- take in,
- thrust out,
- tuck in,
- verge,
- wall in,
- wheel,
- wrap,
- wrap about,
- wrap up,
- yard,
- yard up