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surroundest

surroundest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of surround.

Meaning of surround

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

Origin of surroundest

surround + -est

Questions about surroundest

What is surroundest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Surroundest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of surround.

Words near surroundest in the dictionary

  1. surround-sound
  2. surrounded
  3. surroundedness
  4. surrounder
  5. surrounders
  6. surroundest
  7. surroundeth
  8. surrounding
  9. surroundings
  10. surrounds
  11. surroyal

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