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Meaning of 'surround' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . 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.
2 . Surround [ v. t.]
- To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
- To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city.
- To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world.
- 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.

Meaning of 'surround' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . surround [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the area in which something exists or lives
Example in sentence:
  • the country--the flat agricultural surround
2 . surround [ v]
Meaning (2):
- envelop completely
Example in sentence:
  • smother the meat in gravy
Meaning (3):
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
Example in sentence:
  • The forest surrounds my property
Meaning (4):
- surround so as to force to give up
Example in sentence:
  • The Turks besieged Vienna

Nearby Words:

sur- sura suradanni suraddition surah sural surance surangular surbase surbased

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