· the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround"

Synonym(s): environment, environs, surroundings

Hypernym(s): geographical_area, geographic_area, geographical_region, geographic_region

· extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property"

Synonym(s): environ, ring, skirt, border

Hypernym(s): touch, adjoin, meet, contact

· envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy"

Synonym(s): smother

Hypernym(s): cover

· surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna"

Synonym(s): besiege, beleaguer, hem_in, circumvent

Hypernym(s): attack, assail

· surround with a wall in order to fortify

Synonym(s): wall, palisade, fence, fence_in

Hypernym(s): protect