0 to be everywhere around something: --
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.
She said that she wanted to die surrounded by the people she loves (= with them all present).
Mystery still surrounds the exact circumstances of Stalin's death.
2 to be around something on all sides: --
The controversy that surrounded the police action led to a number of investigations.
I’m interested in the circumstances surrounding the accident.
The final chapter gives an inspiring overview of the complex problems surrounding market and non-market economic organisation.
However, given its convenience and the accessibility to surrounding plants, it may be an effective method for pre-planting applications.
There is also discussion of issues surrounding the quality of data.
An intraventricular hemorrhage is a hemorrhage of the area surrounding the lateral cerebral ventricles.
We will review herein some of the evidence and the caveats surrounding the neurodevelopmental hypothesis.
The level of expression of the 6 isoform in the cells of the right bundle branch was always lower than that of the surrounding myocardium.
There is a region of variant grammars closely surrounding every grammar.
Response rates were 96 per cent from the main valley and surrounding district.
