0 past simple and past participle of surround
1 to be everywhere around something:
Mystery still surrounds the exact circumstances of Stalin's death.
She said that she wanted to die surrounded by the people she loves (= with them all present).
Early this morning, armed police surrounded (= moved into a position so that they were everywhere around) a house which they thought contained an escaped prisoner.
A county usually consists of several towns and the rural areas which surround them.
She made her entry to the ceremony surrounded by a group of photographers.
The house is surrounded by trees, so it's not overlooked at all .
The field comprised a mosaic of conventionally-tilled and rye-mulched plots, surrounded by fields of maize, soybeans, alfalfa hay and mixed hardwood forest.
A two-dimensional molten aluminium droplet is of finite extent and is surrounded by a passive gas.
This effect causes target position to be misperceived when it is surrounded by a frame presented asymmetrically.
