Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Surround"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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.
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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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