surround
Pronunciation change
- IPA (key): /səˈraʊnd/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: sur‧round
Verb change
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Third-person singular |
Past tense |
Past participle |
Present participle |
- When you surround something, you confine that object on all sides of it.
- The police surrounded the burglars to prevent them from escaping.
- The house was surrounded by flower beds.