Surrounding is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SURROUNDING in dictionary:

VERB:
• SURROUND, 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
NOUN:
• a thing that forms a border or edging around an object
• the area encircling something; surroundings
• An encompassing.
• The things which surround or environ; external or attending circumstances or conditions.
ADJECTIVE:
• Inclosing; encircling.
• closely encircling
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to extend completely around

Words related to SURROUNDING

ambient11 surround9 surrounded12 surrounds10

Words that contain SURROUNDING

surroundings14

How to use SURROUNDING in a sentence

• Folks came out of curiosity from the surrounding villages to see the gay troop conduct their big brother to the municipal offices.
• Soon the flames caught the mast and rigging, and the pillar of fire lit up the whole town and surrounding country.
• The surrounding country then was almost an unbroken wilderness.
• The gentle love of a good companion, capable of surrounding the latter part of his existence with congenial comfort, he had just lost forever.
• Surrounding the quadrangle are the apartments of the emperor, the residences of his wives and the offices in which he conducted official business.
• Bill lingered at the spring hole on the following morning, and lost himself in an attentive study of the surrounding scenery.
• Close to fifty per cent of the audiences are people attracted from surrounding cities.
• Also the Jews and the rulers, a hundred and fifty men, besides those who came to us from among the surrounding nations, were at my table.
• The interest of the surrounding country is intense, and many theories are advanced as to the cause of the catastrophe.
• The end of it was that I advanced him enough of my remaining goods to buy the cattle he required from the surrounding natives.
• Here they lay for some time in security, while the surrounding country was being actively scoured by parties of search.
• The surrounding Indians rushed to the aid of their fellows.
• In passing by that way a Christian monk noticed the deserted retreat and took possession of it, issuing at intervals to preach to the inhabitants of the surrounding country.
• The lady seated on the seven hills was already regarded with great admiration, and surrounding Churches silently copied the arrangements of their Imperial parent.
• Every monastery became a centre of light and of struggling culture for the surrounding district.
• A chemical compound once formed would persist for ever, if no alteration took place in surrounding conditions.
• The pattern area is cut off in such a manner that sufficient surrounding surface permits the skin to be trimmed.
• In England, as he knew, such reservoirs were higher than the surrounding country, as a rule.
• Now there are some who say that they are in the surrounding atmosphere as in a subject.
• That he looked deeply, calmly, and wisely into the surrounding evils no one can doubt.
• One cause of this we may discover in the fact that the richness of the country immediately surrounding Adelaide made them eager to ascertain its extent.
• Peasants from the surrounding country, in their plain cotton caps, are waiting in the old corner of the Rue Neuve, heaped together like eggs.
• But these shaggy recesses were at all seasons a familiar surrounding to Olly and Mrs.
• The face of Gwynplaine stood out clearly from the surrounding shadow in its strange relief.
• And he considers the manifested side of the Fire to be the trunk, branches, leaves, and the bark surrounding it on the outside.
• It is modified by all sorts of surrounding conditions, and exists in many different degrees.
• I who am speaking to you, I have seen, in Paris, eleven kings and a mob of princes surrounding Napoleon like the rays of the sun.

Similar words containing SURROUND without suffix ing

surround9 surrounds10 surrounded12 surroundings14

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