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Surrounding   /sərˈaʊndɪŋ/   Listen
adjective
Surrounding  adj.  Inclosing; encircling.


verb
Surround  v. t.  (past & past part. surrounded; pres. part. surrounding)  
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."
3.
To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world. (Obs.)
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.
Synonyms: To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about.


noun
Surrounding  n.  
1.
An encompassing.
2.
pl. The things which surround or environ; external or attending circumstances or conditions.





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"Surrounding" Quotes from Famous Books



... limestones and dolomites. In these rocks it occurs in veins and lenses very similar in nature to the lead and zinc deposits of the Mississippi valley (p. 211 et seq.), and, like them, probably deposited by cold solutions which gathered together small quantities of material from the overlying or surrounding rocks. The Missouri deposits are found in limestones in a region not far from the great southeastern Missouri lead district, and vary from the lead deposits in relative proportions rather than in kind of minerals; ...
— The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith
... discovered before, to-night she was conscious of actual fear. Something—she knew not what—crept with a compelling influence through her blood,—she felt that some mysterious force she had never reckoned with was insidiously surrounding her with an invisible ...
— The Secret Power • Marie Corelli
... caste. With this fair I danced a waltz, and then danced off to my friend Crony, who had been excused a display of agility on the score of age, and from whom I anticipated some interesting anecdotes of the surrounding stars. ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle
... which is reached by nearly three hundred steps, is fourteen feet out of perpendicular. Five large bells are suspended in the tower, from the top of which one can have a fine view of the walled city, with its Cathedral and Baptistery, the beautiful surrounding country, and the ...
— A Trip Abroad • Don Carlos Janes
... flew... flew. God I was he falling or being lifted into the air? he felt as light as a feather, as smoke. He opened his eyes for a moment and saw stars glittering in a dark sky over a snowy landscape. How could he be seeing the sky? No... he must have made a mistake; darkness was surrounding him again. He wanted to move, but could not; besides, why should he move, when he felt so extraordinarily comfortable? there was not a thing in the world that it would be worth while moving a finger for, nothing but sleep mattered, sleep without awakening. ...
— Selected Polish Tales • Various


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