Word Meanings - SURROUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city. Syn. -- To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about. (more info) L. super over + undare to rise

Additional info about word: SURROUND

To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city. Syn. -- To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about. (more info) L. super over + undare to rise in waves, overflow, fr. unda wave. The English sense is due to the influence of E. round. See Super-, and 1. To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ. 2. To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city. But could instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me. Milton. 3. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world. Fuller.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SURROUND)

• Bound
• Hem
• surround
• environ
• encircle
• besiege
• beleaguer
• embarrass
• Compass Encompass
• enclose
• circumscribe
• embrace
• achieve
• effect
• effectuate
• consummate
• complete
• circumvent
• Encircle
• Surround
• inti
• hem
• compass
• gird
• engird
• hem in
• beset
• encompass
• Environ
• in-close
• enfold
• Gird
• belt
• engirdle
• girdle
• begird

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SURROUND)

• Hobble
• limp
• crawl
• creep
• shamble
• Expand
• disband
• unfold
• amplify
• display
• dismiss
• liberate
• discard
• fail
• bungle
• botch
• misconceive
• mismanage
• misconstrue
• Neglect
• drop
• interrupt
• nullify
• undo
• baffle
• frustrate
• mar
• defeat
• spoil

Related words: (words related to SURROUND)

• SHAMBLE
  One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• HOBBLER
  One who by his tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby. Hallam. Sir J. Davies.
• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• BESIEGER
  One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• BAFFLE
  1. To practice deceit. Barrow. 2. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
• CIRCUMVENTOR
  One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• EXPAND
  To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden.
• BOTCH
  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• UNFOLDER
  One who, or that which, unfolds.
• BUNGLER
  A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
• CRAWL STROKE
  A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
• BELEAGUERER
  One who beleaguers.
• BOTCHERY
  A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• CREEP
  to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• UNBOUNDED
  Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.