ppl. a. [f. SURROUND v. + -ED1.]

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  † 1.  Overflowed, flooded. Obs.

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c. 1586.  C’tess Pembroke, Ps. LXXVIII. xvii. Those surrounded lands, Saw watry clearnes chang’d to bloudy gore.

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1610.  Folkingham, Feudigr., I. ix. 20. Surrounded grounds may be won by Sewing them with competent Draines.

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c. 1682.  J. Collins, Salt & Fishery, 23. The surrounded Level at Erith hath been … commended for its fertility.

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  2.  Encompassed, encircled: chiefly in comb.

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1891.  T. Hardy, Tess, xxv. His father’s hill-surrounded little town.

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