surround

sur·round

1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle.
2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication.

1. Something, such as fencing or a border, that surrounds: a fireplace surround.
2. a. The area around a thing or place: inflammation extending to the surround of the eye.
   b. Surroundings; environment: “It was the country, the flat agricultural surround, that so ravished me” (Listener).
3. A method of hunting wild animals by surrounding them and driving them to a place from which they cannot escape.

Origin: Middle English surrounden, to inundate, from Old French suronder, from Late Latin superundāre : Latin super-, super- + Latin undāre, to rise in waves (from unda, wave; see wed-¹ in Indo-European roots).