surround

CEFRA2

/səˈɹaʊnd/

verb · noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

01
verb
To be all around someone or something.
02
verb
Extra detail
To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.

Examples

He always prefers to surround himself with girls.
Sometimes because of their atmospheres and sometimes because of the gases which surround them.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 4

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.

noun

Extra meaning

Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.

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In context

The lions surrounded the deer herd so they had no way to escape.
They surrounded each other in the classroom and started trading hits.
Ropes surround the place.

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The police decided to blank the building to prevent anyone from escaping.

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Citations

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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
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
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
and this way they get rid of those grand and stubborn opinions that surround them.
2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 230c
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

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Origin

verb

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”).

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The police decided to blank— the building to prevent anyone from escaping.

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verb

The police decided to blank the building to prevent anyone from escaping.