surround

About 3.69 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
2. verb To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.

   The lions surrounded the deer herd so they had no way to escape.

3. verb To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.

   to surround the world

4. noun Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.

Similar words

encircle environ hem in border surroundings environment besiege fence in beleaguer round

Often followed by

the it them him us and a himself me her

Word family

surrounded surrounding surrounds