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ENGLISH: surround - CREOLE: antoure

Overview of noun surround

The noun surround has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)

1. environment, environs, surroundings, surround -- (the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround")

Overview of verb surround

The verb surround has 5 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)

1. (14) surround, environ, encircle, circle, round, ring -- (be around; "Developments surround the town"; "The river encircles the village")

2. (6) surround, skirt, border -- (extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property")

3. (2) smother, surround -- (envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy")

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

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