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surrounded

 
Adjective surrounded has 1 sense
  1. surrounded, encircled - confined on all sides; "a camp surrounded by enemies"; "the encircled pioneers"
    Antonym: unenclosed (indirect, via enclosed)
Verb surround has 5 senses
  1. surround, environ, encircle, circle, round, ring - be around; "Developments surround the town"; "The river encircles the village"
    --1 is one way to hold, bear, carry, contain
    Derived form: noun surround1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  2. surround, skirt, border - extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property"
    --2 is one way to touch, adjoin, meet, contact
    Derived forms: noun surround1, noun surroundings2
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  3. smother, surround - envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy"
    --3 is one way to cover
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
  4. besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumvent - surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna"
    --4 is one way to attack, assail
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  5. wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surround - surround with a wall in order to fortify
    --5 is one way to protect
    Derived form: noun surround1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
surrogage surrogate surrogate mother surrogates surrograte surrond surround surround the noun surrounded surrounded by surrounding surroundings surrounds surrugate surruounding surrupticious surruptitious

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