Dictionary Entry

surround

surround is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 10 senses

Definitions

1transitive verb
To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
2transitive verb
To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city.
3transitive verb
To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world.
4transitive verb
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.
5noun
A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.
6noun
the area in which something exists or lives
"the country--the flat agricultural surround"
Synonyms
environment environs surroundings
7verb
surround so as to force to give up
"The Turks besieged Vienna"
Synonyms
beleaguer besiege circumvent
8verb
surround with a wall in order to fortify
Synonyms
fence palisade wall
9verb
extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
"The forest surrounds my property"
Synonyms
border environ ring skirt
10verb
envelop completely
"smother the meat in gravy"
Synonyms
smother

Synonyms

environment environs surroundings beleaguer besiege circumvent fence palisade wall border environ ring skirt smother

Common word forms

surrounds surrounded surrounder surrounding

Words from these letters

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