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surround en · NOUN
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Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-
Latin unda
Latin undō
Late Latin superundōder.
Middle French souronderbor.
Middle English sourrounden
English surround
From Middle English sourrounden (“to submerge, overflow”), from Middle French souronder, suronder, from Late Latin superundō, from super + undō (“to rise in waves”), from unda (“wave”).
Meanings
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(UK) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.
He drifted through the room, avoiding the furniture by instinct, closed the door that led to the passage, and only then flicked on his flashlight.
It swept around the room, picking out a desk, a telephone, a wall of bookshelves, and a deep armchair, and finally settled on a handsome fireplace with a large surround of red brick.
1972, Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File, Viking, SBN 670-52042-x, chapter 15, page 283
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surround sound
surround en · VERB
Pronunciation
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-
Latin unda
Latin undō
Late Latin superundōder.
Middle French souronderbor.
Middle English sourrounden
English surround
From Middle English sourrounden (“to submerge, overflow”), from Middle French souronder, suronder, from Late Latin superundō, from super + undō (“to rise in waves”), from unda (“wave”).
Meanings
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(transitive) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
It took a long time for the place to warm up and to counteract the cold and enable their fingers to cope with the delicate task of moulding, the men would often surround themselves with blocks of iron heated in the furnace.
1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 342:The superficial fascia surrounds the body and includes subcutaneous fat; the deep fascia surrounds the musculoskeletal system; the meningeal fascia surrounds the nervous system; the visceral fascia surrounds body cavities and organs.
2018 November 8, Dr. Melina Jampolis, “The real science behind fascia ailments”, in CNN:and this way they get rid of those grand and stubborn opinions that surround them.
2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 230c:Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
1963, Margery Allingham, “Miss Thyrza’s Chair”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 41:The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:
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(transitive) 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.
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(obsolete, transitive) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
to surround the world
Unfitting it vvas, that the body of that vvorthy Patriarch [Joseph] (to vvhom all the land belonged by promiſe) ſhould ſteale into that Countrey in a clandeſtine vvay, and privately enter in at the poſtern door, rather let it ſolemnly ſurround the Countrey, and be brought in at the broad gates. Thus the corps of men of quality, though the Chancell-door be nearer, are borne through the porch and middle-alley to the place of their interment.
1650, Thomas Fuller, “The Description of the Tribe of Benjamin”, in A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted thereon, London: […] J. F. for John Williams […], →OCLC, book II, paragraph 16, pages 247–248:
Forms
Deriveds
surrounder · Sensurround · surround and drown · resurround
Synonyms
environ · bound · ensphere · embrace · bebay · embed · beset
Translations (148)
nl omringen (to enclose to prevent escape) · hy շրջապատել (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · mi korohiko (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · io cirkondar (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · ca envoltar (to enclose to prevent escape) · nl omsluiten (to enclose to prevent escape) · ro înconjura (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · ka გარშემორტყმა (to enclose to prevent escape) · ru окружи́ть (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · km ឡោម (to enclose to prevent escape) · pt cercar (to enclose to prevent escape) · ca rodejar (to enclose to prevent escape) · pt contornar (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · es arrodear (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · bg обкръжавам (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · az əhatələmək (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · ml ചുറ്റുക (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · da omringe (to enclose to prevent escape) · es envolver (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · sa वेवेष्टि (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · ca voltar (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · km ប្រចោម (to enclose to prevent escape) · is umkringja (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · ja 取り巻く (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · ka ალყის შემორტყმა (to enclose to prevent escape) · mk опкружи (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · et ümbritsema (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · hu körbevesz (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · el περιβάλλω (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · nl omgeven (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · ar أَحَاطَ (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · uk оточи́ти (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · wa eclôre (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · mi ponitaka (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · la cingō (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · ka გარშემორტყმა (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · cs obklopit (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · nl insluiten (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · li ómgaeve (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · it assediare (to enclose to prevent escape) · ca voltar (to enclose to prevent escape) · mhr авалаш (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · txb wārp- (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · nl omsingelen (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · oc enrodar (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · mi karapoti (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · cmn 包圍 /包围 (to enclose to prevent escape) · fr cerner (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · sv omringa (to enclose to prevent escape) · az dövrəyə almaq (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · mi whakaawhi (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · km ចោម (to enclose to prevent escape) · de umzingeln (to enclose to prevent escape) · ga timpeallaigh (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · km ព័ទ្ធ (to enclose to prevent escape) · el περικυκλώνω (to enclose to prevent escape) · txb wāl- (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · uk оточувати (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · az əhatəyə almaq (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · cs obklíčit (to enclose to prevent escape) · nb omgi (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · ang ymbfaran (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · eo ĉirkaŭi (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · fr entourer (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · it circondare (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · it circondare (to enclose to prevent escape) · mi korohikohiko (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · nl omcirkelen (to enclose to prevent escape) · bg обсаждам (to enclose to prevent escape) · nl omcirkelen (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · nn omgi (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · de umringen (to enclose to prevent escape) · ota صارمق (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · wa retourer (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · cmn 包圍 /包围 (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · nl omsingelen (to enclose to prevent escape) · cs obehnat (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · hu bekerít (to enclose to prevent escape) · ja 囲む (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · es rodear (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · ca circumdar (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · mi poti (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · ca circumdar (to enclose to prevent escape) · qu kanchay (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · fi ympäröidä (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · wa resserer (to enclose to prevent escape) · ca rodejar (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · ca envoltar (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · cmn 圍繞 /围绕 (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · es cercar (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · th โอบล้อม (to enclose to prevent escape) · ar حَفَّ (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · gl encerrar (to enclose to prevent escape) · hu körbevesz (to enclose to prevent escape) · pl otaczać (to enclose to prevent escape) · gl cercar (to enclose to prevent escape) · hi घेरना (to enclose to prevent escape) · la circueō (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · th ปิดล้อม (to enclose to prevent escape) · mi ponitaka (to enclose to prevent escape) · az dövrələmək (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · cy amgylchu (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · fy omjaan (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · mk опкружува (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · mi karapoi (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · wa reclôre (to enclose to prevent escape) · ka გარშემოხვევა (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · de umgeben (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · got 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · la circumdō (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · om marsuu (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · as বেৰ (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · as আগুৰ (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · ang besellan (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · fi piirittää (to enclose to prevent escape) · la circumeō (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · mn тойруулах (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · gd cuairtich (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · nl insluiten (to enclose to prevent escape) · ja 囲む (to enclose to prevent escape) · hy շրջափակել (to enclose to prevent escape) · grc κυκλόω (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · ru окружа́ть (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · got 𐌱𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌾𐌰𐌽 (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · hi घेरना (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · fr enceindre (to enclose to prevent escape) · vi bao vây (to enclose to prevent escape) · az əhatə etmək (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · el περιτριγυρίζω (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · ml വളയുക (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · pt cercar (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · de umringen (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · mi pīhao (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · ast arredolar (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · it accerchiare (to enclose to prevent escape) · el περικλείω (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · ota چنبرلمك (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · th ล้อม (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · mhr аваш (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · ru окружи́ть (to enclose to prevent escape) · ar طَوَّقَ (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · ja 包囲する (to enclose to prevent escape) · fi saartaa (to enclose to prevent escape) · ru окружа́ть (to enclose to prevent escape) · sv omge (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · pl otaczać (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions) · gd cuairtich (to enclose to prevent escape) · nl omringen (to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions)