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English Dictionary: surround	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for surround
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
surround n the area in which something exists or lives; "the country-- the flat agricultural surround" Synonym(s): environment, environs, surroundings, surround v extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property" Synonym(s): surround, environ, ring, skirt, border envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy" Synonym(s): smother, surround surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna" Synonym(s): besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumvent surround with a wall in order to fortify Synonym(s): wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surround
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Surround \Surround"\, 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. 2. To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city. But could instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me. --Milton. 3. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround* the world. [Obs.] --Fuller. 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. Syn: To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about.