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Synonyms for surrounding
səˈraʊn dɪŋsur·round·ing

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Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 1 vote

  1. encompassing(a), surrounding(a), circumferentadjective

    closely encircling

    "encompassing mountain ranges"; "the surrounding countryside"

    Antonyms:
    distant

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. circumfluent

    all around a particular place or thing.

    the surrounding countryside.

    Submitted by JP03 on January 29, 2015  

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.5 / 2 votes

  1. surroundingadjective

    Synonyms:
    circumambient, encompassing, encircling ambient, enveloping

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#1422takes
#2874nearby
#4396surrounding
#6247adjacent
#8877ambient
#14074neighboring
#18016neighbouring
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How to use surrounding in a sentence?

  1. Naval Academy:

    Circumstances surrounding the cause of David Forney death are under review.

  2. Jonathan Roy:

    We've had some clients buying into it, their assets on the ground are attractive, in spite of the political instability, and there's often takeover talk surrounding Gulf Keystone.

  3. Rigoberta Menchu:

    The bravery of these Mayan women has allowed the silence and impunity surrounding sexual violence to be broken after more than 30 years.

  4. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel:

    An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

  5. Washington Post:

    Biden presented himself as an antidote to his predecessor, offering the promise of what his own campaign ads called ‘strong, steady, stable leadership’ after four years of bedlam under President Donald Trump. But the tumult surrounding the administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan offered an early glimpse of the cascade of crises that have badly eroded Biden’s image of restoring calm.


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