Circumfuse vs. Surround — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Circumfuse and Surround
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Circumfuse
To pour or diffuse around; spread.
Surround
To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
The magnetic field that surrounds the earth.
Circumfuse
To surround, as with liquid; suffuse.
Surround
To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication
The police surrounded the house.
Circumfuse
To pour round; to spread round, as a fluid.
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Surround
Something, such as fencing or a border, that surrounds
A fireplace surround.
Circumfuse
To spread round; to surround.
Surround
The area around a thing or place
Inflammation extending to the surround of the eye.
Circumfuse
To pour round; to spread round.
His army circumfused on either wing.
Surround
Often surrounds Surroundings; environment
"It was the country, the flat agricultural surround, that so ravished me" (Listener).
Circumfuse
Spread something around something
Surround
A method of hunting wild animals by surrounding them and driving them to a place from which they cannot escape.
Surround
(transitive) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
Surround
(transitive) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
Surround
To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
To surround the world
Surround
(British) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.
Surround
To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
Surround
To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city.
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Surround
To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world.
Surround
To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city.
Surround
A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.
Surround
The area in which something exists or lives;
The country--the flat agricultural surround
Surround
Be around;
Developments surround the town
The river encircles the village
Surround
Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle;
The forest surrounds my property
Surround
Envelop completely;
Smother the meat in gravy
Surround
Surround so as to force to give up;
The Turks besieged Vienna
Surround
Surround with a wall in order to fortify
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