OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 19477

surround

/səˈɹaʊnd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
arrodear • cercar • envolver • rodear
To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
It took a long time for the place to warm up and to counteract the cold and enable their fingers to cope with the delicate task of moulding, the men would often surround themselves…
The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse an…