2. Verb. (third-person singular of surround) ¹
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Definition of Surrounds
1. surround [v] - See also: surround
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surrounds
Literary usage of Surrounds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"To avoid these evils, each gathering hule has its "boot," a rounded hood of
fire-clay which surrounds the hole on the inside of the chamber, ..."
2. The Bookman (1897)
"... is everywhere ; it surrounds us and hems us in and permeates us. If science
pursues it, it takes flight and cannot be grasped. ..."
3. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1823)
"which surrounds many writers, whose genius has not been effaced, but concealed,
by the transient crowd of their posterity. " I have admired to see persons ..."
4. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"... when a peripheral layer of protoplasm surrounds a central vacuole. The endoplasm
shows streaming movements in one direction within the ecto- plasmic ..."
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