Definition of surrounds Surrounds
/sɚawˈndz/ - [serawndz] -
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What does surrounds mean?
Wiktionary 
- surrounds (Noun)
Things bordering, adjacent to, or nearby another; surroundings.
Part of speech
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| surround - extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property" | ||
| environ, ring, skirt, border | ||
| contact, adjoin, meet, touch attach or add; "I adjoin a copy of your my lawyer's letter" | ||
| fringe decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe; "fur fringed the hem of the dress" | ||
| girdle, gird put a girdle on or around; "gird your loins" | ||
| cloister seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister; "She cloistered herself in the office" | ||
| shut in, close in, inclose, enclose advance or converge on; "The police were closing in on him" | ||
| hem in surround in a restrictive manner; "The building was hemmed in by flowers" | ||
| cloister seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister; "She cloistered herself in the office" | ||
| surround - surround with a wall in order to fortify | ||
| wall, palisade, fence, fence in | ||
| protect shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage; "Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain" | ||
| wall in, wall up enclose with a wall | ||
| stockade surround with a stockade in order to fortify | ||
| circumvallate surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification | ||
| surround - surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna" | ||
| besiege, beleaguer, hem in, circumvent | ||
| assail, attack attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" | ||
| seal off, blockade impose a blockade on | ||
| ebb fall away or decline; "The patient's strength ebbed away" | ||
| surround - envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy" | ||
| smother | ||
| cover clothe, as if for protection from the elements; "cover your head!" | ||
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Wiktionary
- surround (Noun)
Anything, such as a fence or border that surrounds something. - surround (Verb)
To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions. - surround (Verb)
To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- surround (v. t.)
To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ. - surround (v. t.)
To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city. - surround (v. t.)
To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world. - surround (v. t.)
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. - surround (n.)
A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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surround
To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender. -
surround
To extend on all sides simultaneously.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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surround
sur-rownd′, v.t. to go round about; to encompass, environ: to cut off from communication or retreat.—n. Surround′ing, an encompassing: (pl.) things which surround, external circumstances. [O. Fr. suronder—L. superundāre, to overflow, often confused with round.]
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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surround
In sieges, to invest; in tactics, to outflank and cut off the means of retreating.
