surrounded
suh-ROWN-did/səˈɹaʊndɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of surround.
Police surrounded the building before dawn.
The old castle was surrounded by a deep moat.
Note
One spelling does double duty: the simple past (police surrounded the building) and the participle used after have in the perfect and after be in the passive. Because surround always takes an object, the passive comes naturally, usually followed by by: surrounded by a moat. The form carries both the neutral sense of encircling and the tighter one of hemming in so nothing escapes; the old meaning 'sail around' is obsolete.
surrounded is a form of surround
surround, verb: To be present on every side of something, or to form a ring extending in all directions around it. Full entry
- Forms
- surroundsurrounds he/she/itsurrounding -ing formsurrounded past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- surround → surrounded: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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