surround

surround
    n 1: the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--
         the flat agricultural surround" [syn: {environment},
         {environs}, {surroundings}, {surround}]
    v 1: extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The
         forest surrounds my property" [syn: {surround}, {environ},
         {ring}, {skirt}, {border}]
    2: envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy" [syn:
       {smother}, {surround}]
    3: surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged
       Vienna" [syn: {besiege}, {beleaguer}, {surround}, {hem in},
       {circumvent}]
    4: surround with a wall in order to fortify [syn: {wall},
       {palisade}, {fence}, {fence in}, {surround}]
    

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.
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   2. To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall
      surrounds the city.
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            But could instead, and ever-during dark
            Surrounds me.                         --Milton.
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   3. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to
      surround the world. [Obs.] --Fuller.
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   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.
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   Syn: To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence
        about.
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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.
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184 Moby Thesaurus words for "surround":
      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