surrounded

verb

past tense of surround
as in encircled
to form a circle around she was surrounded by cheering fans within moments of scoring the winning goal

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Recent Examples of surrounded Hybrid pic shot over several years in which a child, Germán, lives isolate in a village, surrounded by adults and elderly people. — Annika Pham, Variety, 19 Oct. 2026 Blake's mother, Christina Smith, had planned to pick up her son that day but instead arrived to find the neighborhood surrounded by police. — Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026 Allison, the professional prediction market trader living in Miami, watched the Super Bowl in Las Vegas this year – epicenter of sports gambling – surrounded by neutral fans. — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026 Between them is the fireplace, which is surrounded by beautiful millwork. — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026 An unopened box may look exciting when it is surrounded by balloons, friends and the smell of cake. — ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026 We are broken and lost, but are surrounded by friends and family who are keeping us safe. — Irene Byon, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026 Each tiny fuel kernel is surrounded by multiple layers designed to contain radioactive fission products. — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026 At this season of my life, to be so warmly received by audiences and surrounded by so much love is a gift beyond words. — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 12 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for surrounded
  1. encircled
  2. circled
  3. encompassed
  4. ringed
  5. embraced
Verb
  • On Sunday, the group effectively encircled the key city of Taiz after cutting the main supply route linking it to the interim government capital of Aden.
    — Frank Andrews, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2026
  • With that official, the Astros encircled Espada in the visitors’ batting cage at Sutter Health Park.
    — Matt Kawahara, Houston Chronicle, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of encircled
Verb
  • Over the past 100,000 years, Halley's Comet has probably circled the sun well over a thousand times, leaving a fresh trail of debris on every visit.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Democrats have circled Alaska, a typically reliable Republican state, as a winnable seat in their bid to flip the Senate in the 2026 midterm elections.
    — Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of circled
Verb
  • At its Paris debut, the program encompassed 28 shoe styles and seven handbag styles, offering more than 1,000 possible combinations.
    — Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • For me, the name Peck not only encompassed the conflicts in the book (between twin brothers, capitalism and social good, originality and conformity) but also captured the constant ephemeral battle of proving how and why art matters.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of encompassed
Verb
  • This is a city full of glittering theater marquees and mint midcentury signage, and ringed with rail yards and the scars of an industrial center remade for human scale.
    — Leslie Pariseau, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The young sun was ringed by a rotating disk of gas and dust with the first building blocks of planets taking shape within it.
    — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of ringed
Verb
  • Once such fallacious arguments were enthusiastically embraced, the horror of the Shoah was not far distant.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Although dominated by Democrats, the California Legislature has hardly embraced a wealth tax, even for the ultra-rich.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of embraced

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“Surrounded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surrounded. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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