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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Verb

To close (a building) so that no one can enter.

To terminate (a business).

To enclose (a person, animal or thing) in a room or other place so that it cannot leave.

* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde):

"You know the doctor's ways, sir," replied Poole, "and how he shuts himself up'. Well, he's ' shut up again in the cabinet; and I don't like it, sir—I wish I may die if I like it. Mr. Utterson, sir, I'm afraid."

To put (an object) in a secure enclosed place.

(ergative) Of a person, to stop talking or (of a person or thing) making noise.

You are talking so loud that I can't hear the music — would you mind shutting up ?

He was blathering on about something, but I managed to shut''' him '''up .

(intransitive, colloquial, used only in the imperative) I don't believe it!, no way!

''"I got accepted to Yale!" / "Shut up , really? That's awesome!"