Synonyms for surround
səˈraʊndsur·round

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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

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1. surroundverb

   Synonyms:
   encircle, environ, encompass, enclose

2. surroundverb

   Synonyms:
   (Mil.) invest, besiege, lay siege to

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1. surroundverb

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "surround":

   shroud, besiege, immersive, encircle, housing, enshroud, enclose, takes

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1. Author Unknown:

   The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.

2. Igor Stravinsky:

   My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

3. Gary Nordlinger:

   Obama is deep, deep down an intellectual, he is a product of the Ivy Leagues and it makes perfectly reasonable sense why he chooses to surround himself with these type of people.

4. 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.

5. Ben Carson:

   Even if Donald Trump turns out not to be such a great president, which I don't think is the case, I think he's going to surround himself with really good people, but even if he didn't, we're only looking at four years as opposed to multiple generations, and perhaps the loss of the American dream forever.