SURROUND

Definitions

1. 1. To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
2. 2. To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city. But could instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me. Milton.
3. 3. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world. [Obs.] Fuller.
4. 4. To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city.