surround

To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle.

To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication.

Something, such as fencing or a border, that surrounds.

The area around a thing or place.

Surroundings; environment.

A method of hunting wild animals by surrounding them and driving them to a place from which they cannot escape.

To overflow; inundate.

To encompass; environ; inclose on all sides, as a body of troops, surrounded by hostile forces, so as to cut off communication or retreat; invest, as a fortified place: as, to surround a city; to surround a detachment of the enemy.

To form an inclosure round; environ; encircle: as, a wall or ditch surrounds the city.