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Surround vs Bego - What's the difference?

surround | bego |

As verbs the difference between surround and bego

is that surround is (label) to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions while bego is (archaic) to go about; encompass; surround; beset, surround with hostile intent; to overrun.

As nouns the difference between surround and bego

is that surround is (british) anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something while bego is that which besets, surrounds, compasses, or affects; situation; circumstance.

surround

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (label) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
    • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=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.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
    • and this way they get rid of those grand and stubborn opinions that surround them.
  • (label) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
  • To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.
  • * 1972 , 670-52042-x, chapter 15, page 283:
    • He drifted through the room, avoiding the furniture by instinct, closed the door that led to the passage, and only then flicked on his flashlight.
    It swept around the room, picking out a desk, a telephone, a wall of bookshelves, and a deep armchair, and finally settled on a handsome fireplace with a large surround of red brick.

    Derived terms

    * surround sound

    bego

    English

    Verb

  • (archaic) To go about; encompass; surround; beset, surround with hostile intent; to overrun.
  • *1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book V:
  • *:Thy prysemen ar sore begone and put undir, for they ar oversette with Sarazens mo than fyve hondred.
  • *1892 , Albany Law Journal - Volumes 44-45 - Page 166:
    • False love, I bego', I ' bego . Ere something still worse come down.
  • *1902 , Carolyn Wells, Abeniki Caldwell: A Burlesque Historical Novel - Page 178 :
    • He bewent speedily, and as he vanished I heard him again calling, " Not she, not she ! Ha, ha ! "
  • *2013 , Ambrose Bierce, Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce :
    • They bewent , asmirking, And I, awakening, fell straight aworking.
  • (obsolete) To clothe, dress.
  • To affect, usually as a good or bad influence, or as a circumstance.
  • :He was woe begone .

    • Noun

    (begoes)
  • That which besets, surrounds, compasses, or affects; situation; circumstance.
  • *2011 , Loretto Gubernatis, Dimitrius and the Gladiolas :
    • “As I was passing by a vineyard on the Earth where some of mankind were taking their lunch, I heard them complaining and grumbling about these things they called 'ants'. Oh the woes and begoes of mankind,” smiled the good lord.

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