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 →

2) As an adjective, «surrounded by» means having things or people all around you. tree →

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 →
• The castle was surrounded by a deep moat. tree →
• We were surrounded by sheep in the field. tree →
• The police surrounded the building. tree →
• She sat surrounded by books in the library. tree →
• The house is surrounded by tall trees. tree →
• Surrounded by friends, he blew out the candles. tree →
• Here the god himself reposes, surrounded by innumerable forms. tree →

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.
• The Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded by land, while Antarctica is a continent of land covered by ice and surrounded by ocean.
• Pangaea was surrounded by one giant ocean called Panthalassa.
• Jupiter is surrounded by belts of deadly radiation, the strongest of any planet, which can damage spacecraft electronics.
• A sea is a part of the ocean that is partly surrounded by land.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «surrounded» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.