Surround

v. t.	1.	To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ. [imp. & p. p. Surrounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Surrounding.]
	2.	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.
	3.	To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world.
	4.	(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.
n.	1.	A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.

Noun	1.	surround - the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround" Synonyms: environs, surroundings, environment
Verb	1.	surround - be around; "Developments surround the town"; "The river encircles the village" Synonyms: encircle, environ, circle, round, ring
	2.	surround - extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property" Synonyms: border, skirt
	3.	surround - envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy" Synonyms: smother
	4.	surround - surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna" Synonyms: besiege, circumvent, hem in, beleaguer
	5.	surround - surround with a wall in order to fortify Synonyms: palisade, wall, fence in, fence

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