Envelop vs. Surround — What's the Difference?

Wrap up, cover, or surround completely

To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle

To wrap, enclose, or cover

To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication

To surround

Something, such as fencing or a border, that surrounds

(transitive) To surround or enclose.

The area around a thing or place

To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship.

Often surrounds Surroundings; environment

Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering;

A method of hunting wild animals by surrounding them and driving them to a place from which they cannot escape.

(transitive) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.

(transitive) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.

To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.

(British) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.

To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.

To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city.

To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world.

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.

A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.

The area in which something exists or lives;

Be around;

Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle;

Envelop completely;

Surround so as to force to give up;

Surround with a wall in order to fortify