surround
Other forms: surrounded; surrounding; surrounds
When you think of the word surround, think of something that's around you on all sides, like the trees that surround you in a forest or the people who surround you on a city street at rush hour.
Sometimes surround describes the position of troops that force the enemy to surrender. You can also surround your property with a fence, or surround yourself with positive people. Both of these offer a way to protect or strengthen the thing in the middle — your house or your well-being. In a movie theater that has "surround sound," the audience feels like it is in the middle of the action because of the speakers placed all around the space.
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extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle“The forest surrounds my property”types:fringedecorate with or as if with a surrounding fringecloistersurround with a cloisterhem insurround in a restrictive mannercloistersurround with a cloister, as of a gardenbankenclose with a bankencapsulateenclose in a capsule or other small containercasketenclose in a casketcorralenclose in a corralhedgehinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge
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envelop completely
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surround with a wall in order to fortify
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surround so as to force to give up
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the area in which something exists or lives“the country--the flat agricultural surround”synonyms: environment, environs, surroundingstypes:mediumthe surrounding environmentelementthe most favorable environment for a plant or animalmelting potan environment in which many ideas and races are socially assimilatedpartsthe local environmentscenarioa setting for a work of art or literaturehabitationthe native habitat or home of an animal or planttype of:geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical regiona demarcated area of the Earth
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