Found 3 items, similar to Surround.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: surround
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: surround
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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Surround
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.
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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.
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2. To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall
surrounds the city.
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But could instead, and ever-during dark
Surrounds me. --Milton.
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3. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to
surround the world. [Obs.] --Fuller.
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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.
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Syn: To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence
about.
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