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Synonyms for surround
Noun
- 1. environment, environs, surroundings, surround, geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
- usage: the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround"
Verb
- 1. surround, environ, encircle, circle, round, ring, hold, bear, carry, contain
- usage: be around; "Developments surround the town"; "The river encircles the village"
- 2. surround, skirt, border, touch, adjoin, meet, contact
- usage: extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property"
- 3. smother, surround, cover
- usage: envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy"
- 4. besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumvent, attack, assail
- usage: surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna"
- 5. wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surround, protect
- usage: surround with a wall in order to fortify
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