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Noun
S:
(n)
environment
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environs
,
surroundings
,
surround
(the area in which something exists or lives)
"the country--the flat agricultural surround"
Verb
S:
(v)
surround
,
environ
,
ring
,
skirt
,
border
(extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle)
"The forest surrounds my property"
S:
(v)
smother
,
surround
(envelop completely)
"smother the meat in gravy"
S:
(v)
besiege
,
beleaguer
,
surround
,
hem in
,
circumvent
(surround so as to force to give up)
"The Turks besieged Vienna"
direct troponym
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full troponym
direct hypernym
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sister term
S:
(v)
attack
,
assail
(launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with)
"Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week"
derivationally related form
sentence frame
S:
(v)
wall
,
palisade
,
fence
,
fence in
,
surround
(surround with a wall in order to fortify)
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S:
(v)
stockade
(surround with a stockade in order to fortify)
S:
(v)
circumvallate
(surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification)
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