UK Anything, such as a fence or border that surrounds something, A method of hunting some animals, such as buffaloes, by surrounding them and driving them over a precipice, or into a deep ravine or other place from which they cannot escape, the area in which something exists or lives, verb_ surround with a wall in order to fortify, surround so as to force to give up, envelop completely, transitive verb_ To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle, To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication, To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle