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

1. transitive verb. To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
2. transitive verb. To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city.
3. transitive verb. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world.
4. transitive 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.
5. noun. A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.
6. noun. the area in which something exists or lives

   "the country--the flat agricultural surround"

   Synonyms: environment, environs, surroundings

7. verb. surround so as to force to give up

   "The Turks besieged Vienna"

   Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, circumvent

8. verb. surround with a wall in order to fortify

   Synonyms: fence, palisade, wall

9. verb. extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle

   "The forest surrounds my property"

   Synonyms: border, environ, ring, skirt

10. verb. 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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