surrounding
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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.
'surrounding' also found in these Oxford entries:
air
- amniotic fluid
- amphitheatre
- arachnoid
- areola
- atmosphere
- aura
- aureole
- Beringian
- bougainvillea
- boundary layer
- bracket
- break
- Brownian motion
- cabbage
- Caribbean
- chorion
- churchyard
- circumambient
- circumfluent
- circumjacent
- circumvallate
- city state
- close
- coma
- current
- Dakota
- drag
- electromagnet
- embed
- enclave
- entourage
- enucleate
- environs
- epicondylitis
- epigenetic
- erratic
- expansion bolt
- eye socket
- fairy ring
- fanfare
- Faraday cage
- fencerow
- firestorm
- frame
- gazebo
- glume
- green
- ground
- halo
