Surround is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SURROUND in dictionary:

VERB:
• to encompass
• be all round (someone or something)
• (of troops, police, etc.) encircle (someone or something) so as to cut off communication or escape
• be associated with
• be, come, or place all around (a person or thing)
• To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
• To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city.
• To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world.
• 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.
• extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
• envelop completely
• surround so as to force to give up
• surround with a wall in order to fortify
NOUN:
• a thing that forms a border or edging around an object
• the area encircling something; surroundings
• A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.
• the area in which something exists or lives
• border or edging
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to extend completely around

Words related to SURROUND

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Words that contain SURROUND

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How to use SURROUND in a sentence

• Yet he endeavoured to surround them with a wall and trench, that he might be able to check their most sudden sally, to which he imagined that they must have recourse.
• Lewis and Clark had seen the Mandan horsemen surround the buffalo herds and kill the great clumsy beasts with their arrows.
• The other two he sent to the rear, so that they could surround the gang.
• All classes, save the knaves who surround him, and profit by his folly, are become disgusted with and tired of him.
• Antonius also inclined to this view and gave orders for them to 27 surround the rampart.
• The line is blue, and it draws a succession of seven graceful and almost featherlike double wings which surround the central glory and are clearly intended as a part of it.
• The Persians, however, did not pursue them, but remained there, fearing, I suppose, some move to surround them on the part of the enemy.
• Her ideas were imitated! As she had no standard of comparison, Dinah fell into the snares that surround the provincial woman.
• All that others can do for him is to surround him with favoring circumstances and arouse him to a proper sense of his real condition and danger.
• He is represented in the person of an old man looking from the clouds, in the centre of the ceiling, and the King appears among the angels that surround him.
• Twenty volcanic mountains surround the valley, of which twelve are in the oriental chain.
• They wanted to surround Great Britain with a sea of death so full of mines and submarines that no ship could live.
• What were they doing down there? Why did they not surround the bluff? There were enough of them.
• The plan prescribed was in the first place to surround the swamp, as silently as possible, with all our forces, and then to force the pack out so as to face our volley.
• The servants can scarcely creep to their beds through the chests and boxes that surround them.
• Self-centred thought of any kind hangs about the thinker, and most men surround their mental bodies with a shell of such thoughts.
• The mountains of Mokattam close the background, and a number of lovely gardens and plantations of date-palms surround the town.
• If we all remain here, it will be simple for them to surround us.
• By removing its competitors, you let air and light surround the plant, and it spreads its leaves to the sun.
• In order to surround a buffalo herd, or to make a successful assault, or even to row a large boat, organization and leadership are necessary.
• On October 27th it was reported that the Boers were nearing Ladysmith and attempting to surround the place, and a large force was ordered out by Sir George White to reconnoitre.
• The same love would not surround her as a protecting sphere.

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