surrounded
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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.
'surrounded' also found in these Oxford entries:
acinus
- amid
- among
- arena
- astrantia
- aswirl
- atom
- bulb
- circumvallate
- coconut
- court
- earthstar
- enclave
- exclave
- farmyard
- flower
- frogspawn
- garth
- gulf
- halogen
- in
- island
- lake
- landlocked
- love-in-a-mist
- mouth
- parvis
- peanut worm
- pineapple
- polynya
- polyp
- pope's eye
- protea
- roll
- roque
- sea-girt
- square
- surround
- synovial
- woebegone
