meaning of surround

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.
3.
To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world.
4.
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.
5.
A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.
6.
the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural ">surround"


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