as in encircles
to form a circle around
she was surrounded by cheering fans within moments of scoring the winning goal
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as in surroundings
the circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded
the vast, featureless surround of the desert was strangely appealing to him
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Recent Examples of surrounds
Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 6 Jan. 2025
What To Do Outdoors Jump in the Lake Lake Lanier spans 38,000 acres and surrounds three sides of the city.
—Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2025
The mob surrounds them and kicks the officer for several minutes.
—Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2025
Downstairs, lush landscaping surrounds the pool, deck and palapa.
—Roxana Popescu, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
Much like the space that surrounds it, this crepe’s flavors are bright and elegant.
—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025
Every 11 years, the sun's magnetic field reaches solar maximum, and this is when the CMEs interact with the Earth's magnetosphere, a protective magnetic field that surrounds our planet, sparking a geomagnetic storm.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
Which is to say there’s a big area behind the booth, such that the crowd surrounds the DJ on all sides and creates more of an underground feel in what is obviously an above-ground club.
—Rob Reed, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Making and Using Tallow Beef tallow is made from the fat, or suet, that surrounds cows' organs.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 30 Dec. 2024
Verb
Fencing is installed around a perimeter that goes beyond the office buildings on both sides of the Capitol, and there's an inner perimeter that surrounds the immediate Capitol complex.
—Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 6 Jan. 2025
What To Do Outdoors Jump in the Lake Lake Lanier spans 38,000 acres and surrounds three sides of the city.
—Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2025
The mob surrounds them and kicks the officer for several minutes.
—Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2025
Downstairs, lush landscaping surrounds the pool, deck and palapa.
—Roxana Popescu, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
Much like the space that surrounds it, this crepe’s flavors are bright and elegant.
—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025
Every 11 years, the sun's magnetic field reaches solar maximum, and this is when the CMEs interact with the Earth's magnetosphere, a protective magnetic field that surrounds our planet, sparking a geomagnetic storm.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
Which is to say there’s a big area behind the booth, such that the crowd surrounds the DJ on all sides and creates more of an underground feel in what is obviously an above-ground club.
—Rob Reed, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Making and Using Tallow Beef tallow is made from the fat, or suet, that surrounds cows' organs.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 30 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for surrounds
Verb
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Because the agency encompasses more than a hundred and fifty active missions at twenty major centers and facilities, many staffers spend their days on video calls.—
David W. Brown,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2025
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The five-mile-long mountain ridge that encompasses Mount Yoshino is said to be covered by about 30,000 cherry trees—the oldest of which is thought to have been planted more than 1,300 years ago.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Mar. 2025
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But as a general matter, companies that consider making the necessary capital investments to spur industrial production in the United States are looking for predictable policy environments, not tariffs that are imposed in the morning and withdrawn in the afternoon.—
Michael B. G. Froman,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Mar. 2025
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What makes these cave studies so significant is their potential to shed light on extraterrestrial environments.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Mar. 2025
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“Surrounds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surrounds. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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