Word Direct Answers

What does "surround" mean?

Surround: To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city. But could instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me. Milton.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world. [Obs.] Fuller.
  2. 3.(Mil.) 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.
  3. 4.A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc. [U.S.] Baird.

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