surround
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surround/səˈraʊnd/
▶verb
- 1 be all round; encircle.
- 2 be associated with: the killings were surrounded by controversy.
- 1 a border or edging.
- 2 (surrounds) surroundings.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘overflow’): from OFr. souronder, from late L. superundare, from super- ‘over’ + undare ‘to flow’; later assoc. with round.
'surround' also found in these Oxford entries:
band
- beset
- besiege
- chimney breast
- circumvallate
- close
- compass
- coronary
- embower
- encase
- encircle
- enclose
- encompass
- enfold
- engirdle
- engulf
- entourage
- envelop
- environ
- enwreathe
- fence
- frame
- gherao
- gird
- girdle
- girth
- guard cell
- halo
- hearth
- hedge
- hem
- immersive
- invest
- moat
- pack
- ring
- round
- siege
- stereophonic
- text wrap
- wreathe
