surround
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-
Latin unda
Latin undō
Late Latin superundōder.
Middle French souronderbor.
Middle English sourrounden
English surround
From Middle English sourrounden (“to submerge, overflow”), from Middle French souronder, suronder, from Late Latin superundō, from super + undō (“to rise in waves”), from unda (“wave”).
Inflected forms:
form: surrounds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: surrounding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: surrounded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: surrounded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: surrounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
It took a long time for the place to warm up and to counteract the cold and enable their fingers to cope with the delicate task of moulding, the men would often surround themselves with blocks of iron heated in the furnace.
Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
and this way they get rid of those grand and stubborn opinions that surround them.
The superficial fascia surrounds the body and includes subcutaneous fat; the deep fascia surrounds the musculoskeletal system; the meningeal fascia surrounds the nervous system; the visceral fascia surrounds body cavities and organs.
gloss: To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The lions surrounded the deer herd so they had no way to escape.
They surrounded each other in the classroom and started trading hits.
gloss: To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: to surround the world
Unfitting it vvas, that the body of that vvorthy Patriarch [Joseph] (to vvhom all the land belonged by promiſe) ſhould ſteale into that Countrey in a clandeſtine vvay, and privately enter in at the poſtern door, rather let it ſolemnly ſurround the Countrey, and be brought in at the broad gates. Thus the corps of men of quality, though the Chancell-door be nearer, are borne through the porch and middle-alley to the place of their interment.
gloss: Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: He drifted through the room, avoiding the furniture by instinct, closed the door that led to the passage, and only then flicked on his flashlight.
It swept around the room, picking out a desk, a telephone, a wall of bookshelves, and a deep armchair, and finally settled on a handsome fireplace with a large surround of red brick.
Synonyms: environ
embed
ensphere
bebay
beset
Derived words: resurround
Sensurround
surround and drown
surrounder
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