surround

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /səˈraʊnd/

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• Hyphenation: sur‧round

Verb

Plain form surround

Third-person singular surrounds

Past tense surrounded

Past participle surrounded

Present participle surrounding

1. When you surround something, you confine that object on all sides of it.

   The police surrounded the burglars to prevent them from escaping.

   The house was surrounded by flower beds.

Related words

• surrounding
• surroundings