surround

Noun

• the area in which something exists or lives
  • the country--the flat agricultural surround
    

Verb

• surround with a wall in order to fortify

• surround so as to force to give up
  • The Turks besieged Vienna
    

• envelop completely
  • smother the meat in gravy
    

• extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
  • The forest surrounds my property
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  environment , environs , surroundings , wall , palisade , fence , fence in , besiege , beleaguer , hem in , circumvent , smother , environ , ring , skirt , border