Verb

(en verb)

(label) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.

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, 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.

(Fuller)

Verb

(en verb)

To surround; to encircle.

* 1673 , ”:

I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs

By the known rules of antient libertie,

When strait a barbarous noise environs me

Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs.

* Spenser

Dwelling in a pleasant glade, / With mountains round about environed .

* Shakespeare

Environed he was with many foes.

* John Donne

Environ me with darkness whilst I write.