surrounded

Verb

surround (third-person singular simple present surrounds, present participle surrounding, simple past and past participle surrounded)

1. (transitive) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
   • 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 and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick

   Synonyms:

   bound

2. (transitive) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
   • The lions surrounded the deer herd so they had no way to escape.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
   • to surround the world

See all 4 meanings of surround