Surrounded

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Surround \Sur*round"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Surrounded}; p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Surrounding}.] [OF. suronder to overflow, LL.
     superundare; fr. L. super over + undare to rise in waves,
     overflow, fr. unda wave. The English sense is due to the
     influence of E. round. See {Super-}, and {Undulate}, and cf.
     {Abound}.]


     1. To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
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     2. To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall
        surrounds the city.
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              But could instead, and ever-during dark
              Surrounds me.                         --Milton.
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     3. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to
        surround the world. [Obs.] --Fuller.
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     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.
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     Syn: To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence
          about.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  surrounded
       adj : confined on all sides; "a camp surrounded by enemies"; "the
             encircled pioneers" [syn: {encircled}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "surrounded":
     circumscribed, circumscript, compassed, defined, definite,
     delimited, demarcated, determinate, determined, encircled,
     enclosed, encompassed, enfolded, enveloped, environed, fixed,
     hedged about, lapped, set, specific, stated, wrapped, wreathed