'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
Surround with a wall in order to fortify [syn: wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surround]

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'

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