SURROUND

surround. Surround, v. to environ, encompass, inclose, beset

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Sur‐round″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surrounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Surrounding.] [[OF. suronder to overflow, LL. superundare; fr. L. super over + undare to rise in waves, overflow, fr. unda wave. The English sense is due to the influence of E. round. See Super-, and Undulate, and cf. Abound.]] 1. 1. To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
2. 2. To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city.
But could instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me. Milton. 3. 3. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world. Fuller.
4. 4. (Mil.) To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city.
Syn. — To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about.