Synonyms for surround
səˈraʊndsur·round

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1. environment, environs, surroundings, surroundverb

   the area in which something exists or lives

   "the country--the flat agricultural surround"

   Synonyms:
   milieu, purlieu, environment, surroundings, environs

2. surround, 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, skirt

3. smother, 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, environ

4. besiege, 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, environ

5. wall, 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

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1. surroundverb

   Synonyms:
   encircle, environ, encompass, enclose

2. surroundverb

   Synonyms:
   (Mil.) invest, besiege, lay siege to

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1. surroundverb

   Synonyms:
   enclose, encircle, encompass, environ, hem in, corral, invest, intrench

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1. List of paraphrases for "surround":

   shroud, besiege, immersive, encircle, housing, enshroud, enclose, takes

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1. Vladimir Putin:

   You care day and night for your children, grandchildren and your family. Even today, on International Women's Day, you are still caught up in your routine, working tirelessly, always on time. We often ask ourselves, how do they manage it all? we will do our utmost to surround the women we love with care and attention, so that they can smile more often.

2. Khaled Al-Maeena:

   Had it happened an hour later it would have been much worse, had it happened five hours earlier or four hours earlier, I think the death toll would have been more than a thousand. Construction cranes surround the Grand Mosque, which is undergoing expansions to make the pilgrimage more manageable, he said.

3. Bryce Weiler:

   Anyone can have success in life if they surround themselves with people who believe in them and want them to be successful.

4. Steve Kerber:

   Lithium batteries are generally safe and unlikely to fail, but only so long as there are no defects and the batteries are not damaged or mistreated, the more batteries that surround us the more incidents we will see.

5. Igor Stravinsky:

   My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.