Surround

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  • transitive verb. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle.
  • transitive verb. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication.
  • noun. Something, such as fencing or a border, that surrounds.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The area around a thing or place.
  • noun. Surroundings; environment.
  • noun. A method of hunting wild animals by surrounding them and driving them to a place from which they cannot escape.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To overflow; inundate.
  • To encompass; environ; inclose on all sides, as a body of troops, surrounded by hostile forces, so as to cut off communication or retreat; invest, as a fortified place: as, to surround a city; to surround a detachment of the enemy.
  • To form an inclosure round; environ; encircle: as, a wall or ditch surrounds the city.
  • To make the circuit of; circumnavigate.
  • Synonyms To fence in, coop up.
  • To overflow.
  • noun. A method of hunting some animals, such as buffaloes, by surrounding them and driving them over a precipice, or into a deep ravine or other place from which they cannot escape.
  • noun. A cordon of hunters formed for the purpose of capturing animals by surrounding and driving them.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
  • transitive verb. To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle.
  • transitive verb. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • noun. A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To encircle or simultaneously extend on all sides of something.
  • verb. To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
  • noun. Anything, such as a fence or border that surrounds something.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the area in which something exists or lives
  • verb. surround with a wall in order to fortify
  • verb. extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
  • verb. surround so as to force to give up
  • verb. envelop completely
  • Word Usage
    "The only thing you surround is the kiosk at the Tea Bagger convention selling little American flags for $15 a pop that are made – ahem – in CHINA."
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