Wreathe vs Surround - What's the difference?
wreathe | surround |
To twist, curl or entwine something into a shape similar to a wreath
To form a wreathlike shape around something
To curl, writhe or spiral in the form of a wreath
(obsolete) To turn violently aside or around; to wrench.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
*:from so heauie sight his head did wreath , / Accusing fortune, and too cruell fate [...].
(label) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
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(label) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
(British) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.
* 1972 , 670-52042-x, chapter 15, page 283:
As verbs the difference between wreathe and surround
is that wreathe is to twist, curl or entwine something into a shape similar to a wreath while surround is (label) to encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.As a noun surround is
(british) anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.wreathe
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Verb
(wreath)Anagrams
*surround
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(en verb)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.}}
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.}}
- and this way they get rid of those grand and stubborn opinions that surround them.
- (Fuller)
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*Noun
(en noun)- 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.
