Synonyms for surround
- verb
- noun
Definitions
- v. 1
To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
- v. 2
To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
The lions surrounded the deer herd so they had no way to escape.
- n. 1
Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.
Forms
- Plural
- surrounds → environments, corrals…
- Past participle
- surrounded
e.g. surrounded → encircled, besieged, enclosed, embraced…
Example sentences
- embrace He was trying to persuade me to embrace his ideas.
- enclose You should enclose this note in parentheses.
- wall She walked on her hands along the top of the wall.
By length
- 4 letters
- wall1, ring1, belt1, gird1
- 5 letters
- round1, bound1, fence1, skirt1, beset2, embed2, bebay
- 6 letters
- border2, invest2, corral2, girdle2, enfold2, begird
- 7 letters
- embrace2, compass2, smother2, confine2, enclose2, envelop3, besiege2, environ, wreathe
- 8 letters
- encircle3, palisade3, ensphere
- 9 letters
- associate4, encompass3, beleaguer3
- 10 letters
- circumvent3
- 11 letters
- environment4
- 12 letters
- surroundings3, circumscribe3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (beset2 = 2 syllables).