SURROUNDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surrounding mean? 

• SURROUNDING (adjective)
  The adjective SURROUNDING has 1 sense:

1. closely encircling

  Familiarity information: SURROUNDING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURROUNDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Closely encircling

Synonyms:

circumferent; encompassing; surrounding

Context example:

the surrounding countryside

Similar:

close (at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other)

 Context examples 

The surrounding ovarian stroma is fibrotic.

(Borderline Ovarian Endometrioid Adenofibroma, NCI Thesaurus)

The surrounding ovarian stroma is often fibrotic.

(Borderline Ovarian Endometrioid Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

The loss of any normal body fluid into the surrounding tissue or body cavity.

(Body Fluid Leakage, NCI Thesaurus)

Autonomous new growth of well-differentiated mammary epithelium that has limited growth potential does not metastasize or invade surrounding structures and has normal cytology.

(Benign Neoplasms of the Mouse Mammary Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

The very cultivation surrounding it had disappeared.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A subtype of classical Hodgkin lymphoma characterized by collagen bands surrounding lymphoid nodules.

(Nodular Sclerosis Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

Invasive breast cancer is breast cancer that has spread from where it began in the breast ducts or lobules to surrounding normal tissue.

(Breast Cancer, NCI Dictionary)

The neoplastic cells extend into the surrounding tissues, usually skeletal muscle.

(Oral Cavity Benign Granular Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Edward had been staying several weeks in the house before he engaged much of Mrs. Dashwood's attention; for she was, at that time, in such affliction as rendered her careless of surrounding objects.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Listen and say little on this day and the days surrounding it.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)