| VERB | contact | environ, surround, ring, skirt, border | extend on all sides of simultaneously |
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| Meaning | Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. | |
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| 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 | |
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