vt to inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
2. surround ·vt to lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city.
3. surround ·vt to pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world.
4. surround ·noun a method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, ·etc.
5. surround ·vt 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.