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Yes, surround is playable

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"Surround" Definition

noun

A method of hunting wild animals by surrounding them and driving them to a place from which they cannot escape.
Something, such as fencing or a border, that surrounds: a fireplace surround.
Surroundings; environment: "It was the country, the flat agricultural surround, that so ravished me” ( Listener).
The area around a thing or place: inflammation extending to the surround of the eye.
Something (as a border or ambient environment) that.

verb-transitive

To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication.
To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle.

verb

To enclose on all sides.
To enclose so as to cut off communication or retreat.
To form or be a member of the entourage of.
To constitute part of the environment of.
To extend around the margin or edge of.

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