окружать
surround
to be all around something or someone
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окружать with German translation
окружать usage examples
Menschen umgeben den Musiker auf der Bühne.
Люди окружают музыканта на сцене.
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окружать synonyms
What's the difference between окружать / обступать / обволакивать / обкрeживать / охватывать
Main neutral verb: to be all around someone or something.
Neutral/literary: to surround closely, often as a group of people, a crowd, or objects, with a sense of closing in.
Conveys a soft, dense, enveloping layer; often used with fog, smoke, smells, feelings, or fabric.
Stronger and more specific: to surround in a military, police, or tactical sense, usually to prevent escape.
Very close, but more often means 'to encompass completely' in a spatial or abstract sense; can sound more bookish.
A descriptive intensified variant: emphasizes that someone or something literally occupies the space around another object.
Not a verb, but an adverbial phrase: specifies that the surrounding happens all around, completely.
Conversational neutral adverb/particle: indicates being around, in a circle; not a precise verbal synonym on its own.
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How to pronounce окружать and what this word means
окружать means surround. This page includes translation, pronunciation, transcription, audio, usage examples and related words.
how to pronounce окружать
[ɐkrʊˈʐatʲ]
окружать translation
surround
окружать examples
Hohe Bäume umgeben das Haus.
окружать transcription
[ɐkrʊˈʐatʲ]
Questions about this word
окружать meaning: what does it mean?
быть со всех сторон вокруг чего-то или кого-то
окружать pronunciation: how do you pronounce it?
окружать is pronounced as [ɐkrʊˈʐatʲ]. Audio is available on this page when the word has a recording.
окружать definition and sentence examples: how is it used in a sentence?
Hohe Bäume umgeben das Haus. Translation: Высокие деревья окружают дом.
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