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Found 1 definition: environ.

Pos: Verb (transitive)

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Verb environ has 1 senses

environ(v = verb.contact) border, ring, skirt, surround - extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property"
is one way to adjoin, contact, meet, touch
Sample sentences: Something ----s something

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

environ, v. t. [F. environner, fr. environ about, thereabout; pref. en- (L. in) + OF. viron circle, circuit, fr. OF. & F. virer to turn, LL. virare to turn up and down, topsy-turvy. Cf. Veer.].

To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop. [1913 Webster]
"Dwelling in a pleasant glade,
With mountains round about environed." [1913 Webster]
"Environed he was with many foes." [1913 Webster]
"Environ me with darkness whilst I write." [1913 Webster]

environ, adv. [F.].

About; around. [1913 Webster]
"Lord Godfrey's eye three times environ goes." [1913 Webster]

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

environ, v.tr. encircle, surround (esp. hostilely or protectively).

Etymology:
ME f. OF environer f. environ surroundings f. en in + viron circuit f. virer turn, VEER(1)

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Circumjacence

VB lie around, surround, beset, compass, encompass, environ, inclose, enclose, encircle, embrace, circumvent, lap, gird, belt, begird, engird, skirt, twine round, hem in.