Definition of surrounding

"surrounding" in the verb sense

1. surround, environ, ring, skirt, border

extend on all sides of simultaneously encircle

"The forest surrounds my property"

2. smother, surround

envelop completely

"smother the meat in gravy"

3. besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumvent

surround so as to force to give up

"The Turks besieged Vienna"

4. wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surround

surround with a wall in order to fortify

"surrounding" in the adjective sense

1. encompassing, surrounding, circumferent

closely encircling

"encompassing mountain ranges"

"the surrounding countryside"

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Quotations for surrounding

Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it. [ T. W. Higginson ]

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world; and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room. [ George Eliot ]

All life is surrounded by a great circumference of death; but to the believer in Jesus, beyond this surrounding death is a boundless sphere of life. He has only to die once to be done with death forever. [ James Hamilton ]

What laborious days, what watchings by the midnight lamp, what rackings of the brain, what hopes and fears, what long lives of laborious study, are here sublimized into print, and condensed into the narrow compass of these surrounding shelves! [ Horace Smith ]

surrounding in Scrabble®

The word surrounding is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters surrounding:

SURROUNDING
(135)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (12 words)

dousing, droning, grounds, nondrug, nursing, rigours, rousing, ruinous, snoring, souring, undoing, unsound

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word surrounding

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(135)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In surrounding

SURROUNDING
(135)
SURROUNDING
(126)
SURROUNDING
(90)
NONDRUG
(86 = 36 + 50)
DOUSING
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DRONING
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UNDOING
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SURROUNDING
(84)
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NONDRUG
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SOURING
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ROUSING
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RIGOURS
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NURSING
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UNSOUND
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NURSING
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UNDOING
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NONDRUG
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UNSOUND
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GROUNDS
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DRONING
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RIGOURS
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GROUNDS
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ROUSING
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DRONING
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DOUSING
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DOUSING
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UNDOING
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RUINOUS
(78 = 28 + 50)
RIGOURS
(77 = 27 + 50)
RIGOURS
(77 = 27 + 50)
UNSOUND
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UNSOUND
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ROUSING
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ROUSING
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SNORING
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SOURING
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UNSOUND
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DOUSING
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UNSOUND
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NURSING
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NONDRUG
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surrounding in Words With Friends™

The word surrounding is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 18

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters surrounding:

SURROUNDING
(234)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (12 words)

dousing, droning, grounds, nondrug, nursing, rigours, rousing, ruinous, snoring, souring, undoing, unsound

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word surrounding

SURROUNDING
(234)
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(216)
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(216)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In surrounding

SURROUNDING
(234)
SURROUNDING
(216)
SURROUNDING
(216)
SURROUNDING
(132)
SURROUNDING
(120)
NONDRUG
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NONDRUG
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UNSOUND
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DOUSING
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GROUNDS
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NURSING
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SOURING
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NONDRUG
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NONDRUG
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UNDOING
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ROUSING
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DOUSING
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NURSING
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DOUSING
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UNSOUND
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RUINOUS
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NURSING
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DRONING
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GROUNDS
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UNSOUND
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RIGOURS
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SURROUNDING
(88)
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NONDRUG
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UNDOING
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UNDOING
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SOURING
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UNSOUND
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GROUNDS
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UNSOUND
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DOUSING
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DRONING
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UNSOUND
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UNSOUND
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DOUSING
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SURROUNDING
(80)
NONDRUG
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SURROUNDING
(80)
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RUINOUS
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UNSOUND
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UNSOUND
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GROUNDS
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SURROUNDING
(76)
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(76)
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SNORING
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NONDRUG
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SURROUNDING
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SURROUNDING
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SURROUNDING
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RIGOURS
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Words containing the sequence surrounding

Words that start with surrounding (2 words)

Words with surrounding in them (1 word)

Words that end with surrounding (1 word)

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Shorter words in surrounding

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Longer words containing surrounding

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