Surround

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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.] Baird.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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. Milton.

3. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world. [Obs.] Fuller.

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.

Synonyms: encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about.