Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to surround
Participle: surrounded
Gerund: surrounding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | surround |
| you | surround |
| he;she;it | surrounds |
| we | surround |
| you | surround |
| they | surround |
Perfect
| I | have surrounded |
| you | have surrounded |
| he;she;it | has surrounded |
| we | have surrounded |
| you | have surrounded |
| they | have surrounded |
Past
| I | surrounded |
| you | surrounded |
| he;she;it | surrounded |
| we | surrounded |
| you | surrounded |
| they | surrounded |
Pluperfect
| I | had surrounded |
| you | had surrounded |
| he;she;it | had surrounded |
| we | had surrounded |
| you | had surrounded |
| they | had surrounded |
Future
| I | will surround |
| you | will surround |
| he;she;it | will surround |
| we | will surround |
| you | will surround |
| they | will surround |
Future Perfect
| I | will have surrounded |
| you | will have surrounded |
| he;she;it | will have surrounded |
| we | will have surrounded |
| you | will have surrounded |
| they | will have surrounded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | surround |
| you | surround |
| he;she;it | surround |
| we | surround |
| you | surround |
| they | surround |
Perfect
| I | have surrounded |
| you | have surrounded |
| he;she;it | have surrounded |
| we | have surrounded |
| you | have surrounded |
| they | have surrounded |
Imperfect
| I | surrounded |
| you | surrounded |
| he;she;it | surrounded |
| we | surrounded |
| you | surrounded |
| they | surrounded |
Pluperfect
| I | had surrounded |
| you | had surrounded |
| he;she;it | had surrounded |
| we | had surrounded |
| you | had surrounded |
| they | had surrounded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would surround |
| you | would surround |
| he;she;it | would surround |
| we | would surround |
| you | would surround |
| they | would surround |
Perfect
| I | would have surrounded |
| you | would have surrounded |
| he;she;it | would have surrounded |
| we | would have surrounded |
| you | would have surrounded |
| they | would have surrounded |
Imperative
| you | surround |
| we | Let's surround |
| you | surround |
Verbs conjugated like 'surround'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'surround'
surmount,
surrebound,
unround,
dumfound,
enround,
forwound,
ground,
outsound,
reground,
round,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1423, "to flood, overflow," from M.Fr. soronder "to overflow, abound, surpass, dominate," from L.L. superundare "overflow," from L. super "over" (see super-) + undare "to flow in waves," from unda "wave" (see water; and cf. abound). Sense of "to shut in on all sides" first recorded 1616, influenced by figurative meaning in Fr. of "dominate," and by sound association with round. First record of surroundings in sense of "environment" is from 1861.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *úp
4. Proto-Indo-European *-er
5. Proto-Indo-European *upér
6. Proto-Italic *super
7. Latin super
8. Latin super-
9. Latin unda
10. Latin undō
11. Late Latin superundōder.
12. Middle French souronderbor.
13. Middle English sourrounden
14. English surround
15. From Middle English sourrounden (“to submerge, overflow”), from Middle French souronder, suronder, from Late Latin superundō, from super + undō (“to rise in waves”), from unda (“wave”).
Sample Sentences
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[...] passage; and so we were. It was about the last place in the world in which we had any business or reason to be, but a sudden fog, and some error on the pilot 's part, were the cause. We were surrounded by banks, and rocks, and shoals of all kinds, but had happily drifted, it seemed, upon the only safe speck that was to be found thereabouts. Eased by this report, and by the assurance that the tide [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] cometh good, is strongly illustrated by these establishments at home; as the records of the Prerogative Office in Doctors ’ Commons can abundantly prove. Some immensely rich old gentleman or lady, surrounded by needy relatives, makes, upon a low average, a will a-week. The old gentleman or lady, never very remarkable in the best of times for good temper, is full of aches and pains from head to foot; [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Such are the Institutions at South Boston ! In all of them, the unfortunate or degenerate citizens of the State are carefully instructed in their duties both to God and man; are surrounded by all reasonable means of comfort and happiness that their condition will admit of; are appealed to, as members of the great human family, however afflicted, indigent, or fallen; are ruled by the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] Haven, known also as the City of Elms, is a fine town. Many of its streets (as its alias sufficiently imports ) are planted with rows of grand old elm-trees; and the same natural ornaments surround Yale College, an establishment of considerable eminence and reputation. The various departments of this Institution are erected in a kind of park or common in the middle of the town, where they are [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] do you thrust your common offenders against the police discipline of the town, into such holes as these ? Do men and women, against whom no crime is proved, lie here all night in perfect darkness, surrounded by the noisome vapours which encircle that flagging lamp you light us with, and breathing this filthy and offensive stench ! Why, such indecent and disgusting dungeons as these cells, would bring [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Two years! I looked back through two years of my own life—out of jail, prosperous, happy, surrounded by blessings, comforts, good fortune—and thought how wide a gap it was, and how long those two years passed in solitary captivity would have been. I have the face of this man, who was going to be [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The next morning was a cheerful one at the Quaker house. “ Mother ” was up betimes, and surrounded by busy girls and boys, whom we had scarce time to introduce to our readers yesterday, and who all moved obediently to Rachel's gentle “ Thee had better, ” or more gentle “ Hadn't thee better ? ” in [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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For a hundred or more miles above New Orleans, the river is higher than the surrounding country, and rolls its tremendous volume between massive levees twenty feet in height. The traveller from the deck of the steamer, as from some floating castle top, overlooks the whole country for [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The galleries that surrounded the court were festooned with a curtain of some kind of Moorish stuff, and could be drawn down at pleasure, to exclude the beams of the sun. On the whole, the appearance of the place was luxurious [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Miss Ophelia tried the recipe, and Topsy invariably made a terrible commotion, screaming, groaning and imploring, though half an hour afterwards, when roosted on some projection of the balcony, and surrounded by a flock of admiring “ young uns, ” she would express the utmost contempt of the whole affair.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Sir! Hello? ♪ It's havoc all around ♪ ♪ Oh, it's chaos that surrounds ♪
(Nunakuzhi)