Synonyms for surrounding
səˈraʊn dɪŋsur·round·ing

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1. encompassing(a), surrounding(a), circumferentadjective

   closely encircling

   "encompassing mountain ranges"; "the surrounding countryside"

   Antonyms:
   distant

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1. circumfluent

   all around a particular place or thing.

   the surrounding countryside.

   Submitted by JP03 on January 29, 2015  

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1. surroundingadjective

   Synonyms:
   circumambient, encompassing, encircling ambient, enveloping

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1. List of paraphrases for "surrounding":

   neighbouring, neighboring, nearby, ambient, around, outlying, takes, adjacent, bordering, encircling, moheet

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1. John Hickenlooper:

   It would be hard for me -- and I am not saying I couldn't do it and I am not saying my patriotic duty may compel me to do it -- but my character, what activates me, motivates me is building teams and surrounding Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper with really talented people, taking big bites out of major challenges and then doing them.

2. Godwin Ibe:

   The truck caught fire and exploded while offloading gas which engulfed the whole factory and surrounding buildings.

3. Tom Hanks:

   The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

4. Di Carlo:

   We had these [$50,000] to $100,000 cruisers surrounding this school, taxpayer items — taxpayer shields and bulletproof vests and sniper rifles – none of those being used to go into the school, but in fact, the SUVs, for example, were being used to block people from going in to save their own children.

5. Chuck Carlson:

   There seems to be this perpetual stream of kind of quasi-negative news surrounding some of the really big market cap stocks, like Apple particularly, and anytime you have got Apple misbehaving that tends to put a damper on the averages.