Noun

• S: (n) environment, 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"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• S: (v) fringe (decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe) "fur fringed the hem of the dress"
• S: (v) girdle, gird (put a girdle on or around) "gird your loins"
• S: (v) cloister (surround with a cloister) "cloister the garden"
• S: (v) enclose, close in, inclose, shut in (surround completely) "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence"
• S: (v) hem in (surround in a restrictive manner) "The building was hemmed in by flowers"
• S: (v) cloister (surround with a cloister, as of a garden)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• 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"
• S: (v) wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surround (surround with a wall in order to fortify)