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Surrounded

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Adjective

1. encircled, surrounded

confined on all sides

Example Sentences:
'a camp surrounded by enemies'
'the encircled pioneers'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Surrounded

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verb (transitive)
1. 
to encircle or enclose or cause to be encircled or enclosed
2. 
to deploy forces on all sides of (a place or military formation), so preventing access or retreat
3. 
to exist around
I dislike the people who surround her
noun
4. mainly British
a border, esp the area of uncovered floor between the walls of a room and the carpet or around an opening or panel
5. mainly US
a. 
a method of capturing wild beasts by encircling the area in which they are believed to be
b. 
the area so encircled

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Surrounded

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verb transitive
1. 
to cause to be encircled on all or nearly all sides
police surrounded the house
2. 
a. 
to form an enclosure around; encompass
a wall surrounds the city
b. 
to be present on all or nearly all sides of; encircle
lush fields surround the cottage
3. 
to enclose (a fort, military unit, etc.) with troops so as to cut off communication or retreat; invest
noun
4.  Chiefly British
something serving as a border, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Surrounded

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tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds
1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle: the magnetic field that surrounds the earth.
2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication: The police surrounded the house.
n.
1. Something, such as fencing or a border, that surrounds: a fireplace surround.
2.
a. The area around a thing or place: inflammation extending to the surround of the eye.
b. often surrounds Surroundings; environment: "It was the country, the flat agricultural surround, that so ravished me" (Listener).
3. A method of hunting wild animals by surrounding them and driving them to a place from which they cannot escape.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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