Surround
verb — past tense: surrounded ; past participle: surrounded ; present participle: surrounding ;
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- (TRANSITIVE) ~ somebody / something (with somebody / something) (to come or lie or be all around to place all around, to encircle, with enemy forces) ដាក់ជុំវិញ, លាក់ជុំវិញ, ឡោម, គូសវង់ជុំវិញ, surround the enemy ឡោមព័ទ្ធ, ចោមព័ទ្ធ, surround the house with a wall ព័ទ្ធជជុំវិញ, Walls surround the house នៅព័ទ្ធជុំវិញ
Example: Troops have surrounded the town.
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
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- A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.
verb — past tense: surrounded ; past participle: surrounded ; present participle: surrounding ;
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- (TRANSITIVE) To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city.
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- bound, circumscrible, confine, enclose, encompass, envelop, fence, limit
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- develop, distend, enlarge, expand, expose, open