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surrounding   (TTS Sound)

The verb surround has 4 senses

• surround, environ, ring, skirt, border -- (extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property")


• smother, surround -- (envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy")


• besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumvent -- (surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna")


• wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surround -- (surround with a wall in order to fortify)

The adj surrounding has 1 sense

• encompassing, surrounding, circumferent -- (closely encircling; "encompassing mountain ranges"; "the surrounding countryside")