verb
- Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle.
- usage: "The forest surrounds my property"
- Form the boundary of; be contiguous to.
- Enclose in or as if in a frame.
- usage: "frame a picture"
- Provide with a border or edge.
- usage: "edge the tablecloth with embroidery"
- Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary.
- usage: "Canada adjoins the U. S."; "England marches with Scotland"
adjective
- Having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term.
- usage: "black-bordered handkerchief"
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