Antonyms for surround
səˈraʊndsur·round

Matched Categories

1. • Attack
   • Cover

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. environment, environs, surroundings, surroundverb

   the area in which something exists or lives

   "the country--the flat agricultural surround"

   Synonyms:
   milieu, purlieu, environment, surroundings, environs

2. surround, environ, ring, skirt, borderverb

   extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle

   "The forest surrounds my property"

   Synonyms:
   adjoin, elude, circumvent, evade, band, butt against, frame, butt, butt on, echo, sidestep, phone, peal, abut, environ, besiege, edge, wall, call up, parry, fence in, duck, call, knell, fence, hedge, border, resound, put off, reverberate, smother, bound, beleaguer, hem in, frame in, march, ring, fudge, palisade, telephone, dodge, skirt

3. smother, surroundverb

   envelop completely

   "smother the meat in gravy"

   Synonyms:
   fence, muffle, palisade, stifle, asphyxiate, skirt, circumvent, wall, repress, border, put out, fence in, besiege, suffocate, smother, ring, strangle, beleaguer, hem in, environ

4. besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumventverb

   surround so as to force to give up

   "The Turks besieged Vienna"

   Synonyms:
   fence, fudge, outfox, palisade, dodge, tease, overreach, sidestep, hedge, put off, skirt, circumvent, badger, wall, parry, border, bug, fence in, besiege, beat, smother, outwit, elude, ring, outsmart, evade, beleaguer, duck, hem in, pester, environ

5. wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surroundverb

   surround with a wall in order to fortify

   Synonyms:
   fence, palisade, fence in, skirt, circumvent, wall, ring, border, debate, argue, besiege, smother, contend, beleaguer, hem in, environ

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. surroundverb

   Synonyms:
   enclose, encircle, encompass, environ, hem in, corral, invest, intrench

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. epicenter

   Submitted by rinat on September 23, 2019  

How to use surround in a sentence?

1. Victor Hugo:

   Should we continue to look upwards Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables)

2. Michael Steel:

   The coverage of various controversies is surround sound at this point, most people have a firm view of those scandals pretty well locked in.

3. Rochelle Walensky:

   In the meantime, please know that the best way to protect your unvaccinated children is to surround them with vaccinated people, our children deserve to have full-time, in-person, safe learning with prevention measures in place, and that includes masking for everyone in Indianapolis Public Schools.

4. Alejandro Ruelas:

   As an entrepreneur, you need to focus on what you do best -- then surround yourself with people who are better than you at other areas.

5. Maurice Maeterlinck:

   We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.

How to pronounce surround?

How to say surround in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency