Usually means: Encircle an area or object.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. surround: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. surround: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. surround: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. surround: Collins English Dictionary
  5. surround: Vocabulary.com
  6. Surround, surround: Wordnik
  7. surround: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. surround: Wiktionary
  9. surround: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. surround: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. surround: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. surround: Dictionary.com
  13. surround: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. surround: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Surround (disambiguation), Surround (video game), Surround: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Surround: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. surround: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. surround: Rhymezone
  19. surround: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. surround: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. surround: Free Dictionary
  22. surround: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. surround: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. surround: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. surround: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surround: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. surround: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surround: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
verb:  (transitive) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
noun:  (British) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.

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