environ (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *environ*:
VERB	contact	environ, surround, ring, skirt, border	extend on all sides of simultaneously

English > *environ*: 1 sense > verb 1, contact
Meaning	Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle.
Pattern	Something ----s something
Synonyms	surround, ring, skirt, border
Narrower	cloister	Surround with a cloister
	cloister	Surround with a cloister, as of a garden
	enclose, close in, inclose, shut in	Surround completely
	fringe	decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe
	girdle, gird	Put a girdle on or around
	hem in	Surround in a restrictive manner
Broader	touch, adjoin, meet, contact	Be in direct physical contact with
Spanish	cercar, circundar, envolver, rodear
Catalan	circumdar, encerclar, envoltar, rodejar, voltar

HyperDic: environ