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Surrounding

Surrounding meaning

present participle and gerund of surround

Synonyms of Surrounding

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Gosford Street, Woodway Lane and surrounding roads will be closed as we investigate the circumstances surrounding the collisions.

It also included a comparison of the number of residential and commercial properties surrounding the airport to those surrounding Addison Airport and Dallas Love Field.

We don't find any, we'll go broader, surrounding counties, surrounding states," said Lake County Sheriff's Office Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli.

The villagers decided to isolate themselves from surrounding communities so saving the lives of thousands in the surrounding area.

Police investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in Endeavour Hills and scour the surrounding area.

The concept of these Living Cocoons is to facilitate the natural decay of the human body in a way that will benefit the surrounding environment, unlike conventional burials which can often result in polluting the surrounding environment.

Fire crews contained the fire to the lodge building and monitored the surrounding areas to ensure the fire didn’t spread to the surrounding forest or buildings.

He finds parallels between the current disagreement and two previous crises with the Americans at the start of the previous decade, surrounding the Falcon spy plane deal with China and another surrounding the upgrade of the Harpy drone.

Academic debate Various schools of thought have emerged surrounding several key questions surrounding the Cultural Revolution, seeking to explain why events unfolded the way they did, why it began in the first place, and what it was.

As it pushed upward, the salt dragged surrounding sediments into salt dome formations, often trapping oil and gas that seeped from the surrounding porous sands.

In both cases pumping stations are required to keep the land surrounding the canal dry, either pumping water from the canal into surrounding waters, or pumping it from the land into the canal.

Many French speakers from surrounding countries have influenced the English spoken in the border regions of Nigeria and some Nigerian citizens have become fluent enough in French to work in the surrounding countries.

Most Swedish cities were granted a trade monopoly over a limited surrounding area, but for Stockholm most of the lands surrounding the Gulf of Bothnia formed part of the city's trade territory.

Pilgrimage tours to surrounding sacred sites were organized by the Franciscans, but the monks suffered harassment from surrounding Bedouin tribes who often kidnapped them for ransom.

Since it provides the graphical elements surrounding the area in which the engine paints documents, programmers sometimes use the term chrome to refer to its user interface (like the chrome surrounding a car).

Sites surrounding Greenland experience advection (moving) of sea ice from surrounding regions by wind and currents, increasing the variability of sea ice concentration.

With sole regard to the central object and the surrounding ring, the motions would be indistinguishable from each other assuming that both the central object and the surrounding ring were absolutely rigid objects.

A 2012 study at the University of Pennsylvania found that greening vacant lots in Philadelphia with community gardens may reduce crime in the area surrounding the lot.

According to the council, with approximately 16 deaths per year, on average, the current cemetery could serve residents and the surrounding villages for only five more years.

According to the court’s judgement, unless they obtain prior clearance from a judge, all four defendants will be subject to geographical restrictions limiting them to the territory of Bucharest Municipality and the surrounding Ilfov County.