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English

Etymology

From soronder, from superundare (super#Latin|super + undare).

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-surround.ogg


Verb

  1. To encircle or simultaneously extend on all sides of something.
  2. * 2005, w:Plato|Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. w:Stephanus pagination|230c.
  3. *: and this way they get rid of those grand and stubborn opinions that surround them.
  4. To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.


Translations

  • Czech:
  • Finnish:
  • Japanese: {{t-|ja|囲む|tr=kakomu|sc=Jpan}}, {{t|ja|取り巻く|tr=torimaku|sc=Jpan}}
  • Czech:
  • Finnish: ,
  • Japanese: {{t-|ja|囲む|tr=kakomu|sc=Jpan}}, {{t|ja|包囲する|tr=hōi suru|sc=Jpan}}

Noun

surround

  1. In the Context of : Anything, such as a fence or border that surrounds something.


Derived terms


fa:surround fr:surround io:surround it:surround lo:surround hu:surround ja:surround fi:surround ta:surround te:surround vi:surround zh:surround

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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WordNet surround
n : the area in which something exists or lives; "the
country--the flat agricultural surround" [syn: environment,
environs, surroundings]
v 1: be around; "Developments surround the town"; "The river
encircles the village" [syn: environ, encircle, circle,
round, ring]
2: extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest
surrounds my property" [syn: skirt, border]
3: envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy" [syn: smother]
4: surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged
Vienna" [syn: besiege, beleaguer, hem in, circumvent]
5: surround with a wall in order to fortify [syn: wall, palisade,
fence, fence in]
Moby Dictionary
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


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