surround
 sur·round (sə-roundʹ)tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds
1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle.
2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication.n.
1. Something, such as fencing or a border, that surrounds:
a fireplace surround.
2.
a. The area around a thing or place:
inflammation extending to the surround of the eye.
b. Surroundings; environment: “It was the country, the flat agricultural surround, that so ravished me” (Listener).
3. A method of hunting wild animals by surrounding them and driving them to a place from which they cannot escape. [Middle English surrounden, to inundate, from Old French suronder, from Late Latin superundāre: Latin super-, super- + Latin undāre, to rise in waves (from unda, wave. See wed-1 in Indo-European Roots).]
Synonyms: surround, circle, compass, encircle, encompass, environ, gird1, girdle, ring
1 These verbs mean to lie around and bound on all sides: Suburbs surround the city. A crown circled the king's head. Fog compassed the mountain peak. A belt encircled her waist. A lake encompassed the island. The desert environed the oases. A deep moat girds the castle. Flower gardens girdled the bird bath. Guests ringed the coffee table.
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