Surround /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Surrounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Surrounding

1. To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
2. To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city.

   But could instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me.

3. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world. [Obs.]
4. To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city. (Mil.)

1. A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc. [U.S.]