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Synonyms for surround
səˈraʊndsur·round
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Princeton's WordNet
environment, environs, surroundings, surroundverb
the area in which something exists or lives
"the country--the flat agricultural surround"
Synonyms:
milieu, purlieu, environment, surroundings, environssurround, 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, skirtsmother, 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, environbesiege, 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, environwall, 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
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#255 | phone | |
#374 | call | |
#492 | march | |
#786 | environment | |
#1173 | band | |
#1290 | telephone | |
#1374 | wall | |
#1421 | housing | |
#1422 | takes | |
#1517 | ring | |
#1784 | frame | |
#1953 | edge | |
#2043 | bug | |
#2851 | beat | |
#3282 | border | |
#3284 | debate | |
#3403 | bound | |
#3764 | echo | |
#4580 | butt | |
#4626 | dodge | |
#6185 | skirt | |
#7080 | argue | |
#7123 | duck | |
#8175 | fence | |
#8297 | surround | |
#11515 | hedge | |
#11813 | environ | |
#12632 | surroundings | |
#16228 | badger | |
#17420 | tease | |
#17688 | fudge | |
#20325 | contend | |
#21866 | parry | |
#23556 | enclose | |
#27773 | smother | |
#31722 | shroud | |
#33891 | circumvent | |
#34299 | milieu | |
#35107 | sidestep | |
#35306 | evade | |
#36764 | environs | |
#40881 | immersive | |
#43067 | stifle | |
#54452 | palisade | |
#56041 | repress | |
#60869 | strangle | |
#64306 | elude | |
#68341 | knell | |
#69764 | abut | |
#70641 | peal | |
#77925 | outwit | |
#82036 | suffocate | |
#87313 | encircle | |
#90108 | pester | |
#90491 | resound | |
#94911 | outsmart | |
#113280 | reverberate | |
#115405 | muffle | |
#120495 | adjoin | |
#141616 | besiege | |
#158476 | overreach |
How to use surround in a sentence?
Surround yourself with more positive people.
From the road Diane McClay-MacGeorge'd be looking down across the water to the property, which will then be backdropped by the trees that surround the natural river and landscape.
Anyone can have success in life if they surround themselves with people who believe in them and want them to be successful.
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.
Most districts that have been taken surround provincial capitals, suggesting that The Taliban are positioning themselves to try and take these capitals once foreign forces are fully withdrawn.
Translations for surround
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- أحاط, طوق, لفArabic
- circumdar, envoltar, rodejar, voltarCatalan, Valencian
- obehnat, obklopit, obklíčitCzech
- omringeDanish
- umringen, umgeben, umzingelnGerman
- περικλείωGreek
- envolver, cercar, circundarSpanish
- piirittää, ympäröidä, saartaaFinnish
- entourer, enceindreFrench
- omjaanWestern Frisian
- cuairtichScottish Gaelic
- körbeveszHungarian
- accerchiare, circondare, assediareItalian
- 取り巻く, 包囲, 囲むJapanese
- circumeo, circueoLatin
- ómgaeveLimburgish, Limburgan, Limburger
- whakaawhiMāori
- omcirkelen, omringen, insluiten, omsingelen, omsluiten, omgevenDutch
- otaczaćPolish
- contornar, cercarPortuguese
- înconjuraRomanian
- окружи́ть, окружа́тьRussian
- omringa, omgeSwedish
- оточуватиUkrainian
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