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surround
has definitions from the fields of geography,military
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[ verb ] be around
Examples "Developments surround the town" "The river encircles the village" Used in print (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)`` Wherefore also He [ God ] drove him [ man ] out of Paradise , and removed him far from the tree of life , not because He envied him the tree of life , as some venture to assert , but because He pitied him , [ and did not desire ] that he should continue a sinner for ever , nor that the sin which surrounded him should be immortal , and evil interminable and irremediable . (John Michael Ray, "Rhode Island's Reactions...)Extraordinary precautions were taken so that no stranger be allowed_in the city and no citizen within the enclosure surrounding the scaffold . (Whit Masterson, Evil Come, Evil Go....)El_Dorado was surrounded by a mob . |
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[ verb ] extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
Examples "The forest surrounds my property" Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)The name of_it is Gore_Court , and it is surrounded by a wasteland that would impress T._S._Eliot . (Cornell H. Mayer, "Radio Emission of the Moon...)Mare_Imbrium seems to be an exception and remains cooler than the regions which surround it . (Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)Three thermocouples were placed at different locations in the aluminum disk surrounding the anode holder to determine its temperature . (James A. Ibers et al., "Proton magnetic resonance...)The O atoms in each sheet are close_packed and each Cr atom is surrounded by a distorted octahedron of O atoms . (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)The `` leapfrog '' was a phenomenon of the railroad and the steam_turbine , and the time when the belts of residence surrounding the old factory area were not_yet blighted . |
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[ verb ] (military) surround so as to force to give up
Synonyms Examples "The Turks besieged Vienna" Used in print (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)Early the next morning , a Mexican telephoned Pels that Celso_Chavez , one of the posse members , was surrounded by ten Mexicans at his father 's home on the upper Vermejo . |
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[ noun ] (geography) the area in which something exists or lives
Synonyms Examples : "the country--the flat agricultural surround" Related terms geographical_area setting medium parts habitat melting_pot element ambiance wall |
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