Wiktionary's word of the day:

Wiktionary's word of the day:

environ:
1. To encircle or surround (someone or something).
2. (often military) To encircle or surround (someone or something) so as to attack from all sides; to beset.
3. (heraldry, chiefly passive, obsolete) To encircle or surround (a heraldic element such as a charge or escutcheon (shield)).
4. To cover, enclose, or envelop (someone or something).
5. Followed by from: to hide or shield (someone or something).
6. (chiefly passive) Of a person: to be positioned or stationed around (someone or something) to attend to or protect them.
7. (figuratively) Of a situation or state of affairs, especially danger or trouble: to happen to and affect (someone or something).
8. (obsolete)
9. To amount to or encompass (a space).
10. To travel completely around (a place or thing); to circumnavigate.
11. (archaic except in the plural, formal, also figuratively) A surrounding area or place (especially of an urban settlement); an environment. [...]
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