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verb

Surround v. t. (past & past part. surrounded; pres. part. surrounding)

To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.

To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city. "But could instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me."

To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world. (Obs.)

(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.

Synonyms: To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about.

noun

Surround 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.)

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Etymology of 'Surround'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Surround" Quotes from Famous Books

... with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge. What then does the Poet? He considers man and the objects that surround him as acting and re-acting upon each other, so as to produce an infinite complexity of pain and pleasure; he considers man in his own nature and in his ordinary life as contemplating this with a certain quantity of immediate knowledge, with certain convictions, intuitions, ...

— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot

... attempt at secrecy. I have an aunt who lived over a shop, but this is the first time I have found people living from preference under a public-house. You have a heavy iron door. You cannot pass it without submitting to the humiliation of calling yourself Mr. Chamberlain. You surround yourself with steel instruments which make the place, if I may say so, more impressive than homelike. May I ask why, after taking all this trouble to barricade yourselves in the bowels of the earth, you then parade your ...

— The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare • G. K. Chesterton

... the official {188} clergy; they invoked the aid of the state gods in their incantations, and their sacred science was as highly esteemed as haruspicy in Etruria. The immense prestige that continued to surround it, assured its persistence after the fall of Nineveh and Babylon. Its tradition was still alive under the Caesars, and a number of enchanters rightly or wrongly claimed to possess the ancient wisdom ...

— The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism • Franz Cumont

... of Barcelona is to hold out until a fleet arrives from England. If the king would take my advice I will guarantee that he shall be crowned in Madrid in two months; but those pig headed Germans who surround him set him against every proposition I make. You had better start tonight as soon as it gets dark, and take a mounted guide with you who knows ...

— The Bravest of the Brave - or, with Peterborough in Spain • G. A. Henty

... state has become an adjunct to the capitalist economic system. It relies for one of its sources of driving power upon a concept of nationalism which places the political boundary lines that happen to surround a people first among the public limitations on conduct. "My country, right or wrong," becomes a catch phrase on the lips of school children. Whatever transpires inside these political boundary lines is sanctified ...

— The Next Step - A Plan for Economic World Federation • Scott Nearing

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