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verb

Surround v. t. (past & past part. surrounded; pres. part. surrounding)

To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.

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."

To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world. (Obs.)

(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.

Synonyms: To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about.

noun

Surround 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.)

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Etymology of 'Surround'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Surround" Quotes from Famous Books

... little later it was received into the Museo Yucateco upon the same rustic wagon on which it had traversed the 6 leagues of almost inaccessible country from Piste to [C]itas, from where begins the broad road. It was intended to surround it with a wooden fence upon which should be engraved this inscription in ...

— The Mayas, the Sources of Their History / Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan, His Account of Discoveries • Stephen Salisbury, Jr.

... we combine the two plans. We will imprison as many as may be of the archbishops' followers and then by means of the secret stairway surround their lordships." ...

— The Strong Arm • Robert Barr

... class, depended upon a full royal treasury and thriving industry. "The king," said Cardinal Morton, addressing the English Commons, "wishes you to arrest the drain of money to foreign countries. The king wishes to enrich you; you would not wish to make him poor. Consider that the kingdoms which surround us grow constantly stronger, and that it cannot be well that the king should find himself with an empty treasury." To replenish the royal treasury by enriching the bourgeois class was the basic motive which enlisted the Western monarchs ...

— Beginnings of the American People • Carl Lotus Becker

... slave women as Amazons, and lead the legions to the East. Again he thought to finish the rebellion of the Gallic legions, not with war, but with song; and his soul laughed at the spectacle which was to follow his conquest of the soldiers by song. The legionaries would surround him with tears in their eyes; he would sing to them an epinicium, after which the golden epoch would begin for him and for Rome. At one time he called for blood; at another he declared that he would be satisfied with governing in ...

— Quo Vadis - A Narrative of the Time of Nero • Henryk Sienkiewicz

... I'm perfectly happy, Mr. Smith," she beamed. "How could I help it? You know about the new home, of course. Well, it's all ready, and I'm ordering the furnishings. Oh, you don't know what it means to me to be able at last to surround myself with all the beautiful things I've so longed ...

— Oh, Money! Money! • Eleanor Hodgman Porter

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