surround
/səˈɹaʊnd/ verb B1- To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
- To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape. · The lions surrounded the deer herd so they had no way to escape.· They surrounded each other in the classroom and started trading hits.
He/she/it surrounds · Past surrounded · Past participle surrounded · -ing form surrounding
Verb forms
- Base form
- surround
- He/she/it
- surrounds
- Past
- surrounded
- Past participle
- surrounded
- -ing form
- surrounding
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At last they lingered on one away to the left, far back from the road, dimly white with blossoming trees in the twilight of the surrounding woods.
The garden was bounded by a three-foot brick wall with a fringe of wood rails upon the top, and against this wall was leaning a stalwart police constable, surrounded by a small knot of loafers, who craned their necks and strained their eyes in the vain hope of catching some glimpse of the proceedings within.
On and on they walked, and it seemed that the great carpet of deadly flowers that surrounded them would never end.
He was in a small room which Franz had not yet seen, and which was surrounded with divans.
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