SURROUND
\səɹˈa͡ʊnd], \səɹˈaʊnd], \s_ə_ɹ_ˈaʊ_n_d]\
Definitions of SURROUND
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround"
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envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy"
By Princeton University
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the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround"
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envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
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To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city.
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To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world.
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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.
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A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
