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# surrounded

«surrounded» in Mova's school dictionary: **the past of surround: was or were all around something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb, past form of surround (surround, surrounds, surrounded, surrounding); adjective (surrounded by)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Surrounded is the past of surround: was or were all around something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrounded/#m1)

2) As an adjective, «surrounded by» means having things or people all around you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrounded/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography: «an island is land surrounded by water». In stories: «They were surrounded by enemies», «a castle surrounded by a moat». In everyday life: «I grew up surrounded by animals». In maths, a shape surrounded by a border.

### examples

- An island is land surrounded by water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrounded/#x1)
- The castle was surrounded by a deep moat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrounded/#x2)
- We were surrounded by sheep in the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrounded/#x3)
- The police surrounded the building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrounded/#x4)
- She sat surrounded by books in the library. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrounded/#x5)
- The house is surrounded by tall trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrounded/#x6)
- Surrounded by friends, he blew out the candles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrounded/#x7)
- Here the god himself reposes, surrounded by innumerable forms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrounded/#x8)

### note

Past tense and past participle of surround; double r and -ed. Usually followed by «by» or «with». Being «surrounded» in a story often means there is no easy way out.

### In the corpora

- [He nods hard, but he is sure it means the great Chief is surrounded by enemies with spears.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes/1/)
- [The Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded by land, while Antarctica is a continent of land covered by ice and surrounded by ocean.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/7/)
- [Pangaea was surrounded by one giant ocean called Panthalassa.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/6/)
- [Jupiter is surrounded by belts of deadly radiation, the strongest of any planet, which can damage spacecraft electronics.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/15/)
- [A sea is a part of the ocean that is partly surrounded by land.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/43-landforms/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «surrounded» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrounded/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.