Usually means: Surround, enclose, or encompass completely.
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  1. environ: Merriam-Webster
  2. environ: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. environ: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. environ: Collins English Dictionary
  5. environ: Vocabulary.com
  6. Environ, environ: Wordnik
  7. environ: Wiktionary
  8. environ: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. environ: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. environ: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. environ: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. environ: Rhymezone
  13. Environ, environ: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. environ: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. environ: FreeDictionary.org
  16. environ: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. environ: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Environ, environ, environ: Dictionary.com
  19. ENVIRON: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  20. Environ: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

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  1. environ: Legal dictionary

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  1. environ: Encyclopedia

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  1. ENVIRON: Acronym Finder

(Note: See environed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (environ)

adverb:  In the neighbourhood; around.
adverb:  Almost, nearly.
verb:  To encircle or surround (someone or something).
verb:  (often military) To encircle or surround (someone or something) so as to attack from all sides; to beset.
verb:  (heraldry, chiefly passive voice, obsolete) To encircle or surround (a heraldic element such as a charge or escutcheon (shield)).
verb:  To cover, enclose, or envelop (someone or something).
verb:  Followed by from: to hide or shield (someone or something).
verb:  (chiefly passive voice) Of a person: to be positioned or stationed around (someone or something) to attend to or protect them.
verb:  (figuratively) Of a situation or state of affairs, especially danger or trouble: to happen to and affect (someone or something).
verb:  (obsolete)
verb:  To amount to or encompass (a space).
verb:  To travel completely around (a place or thing); to circumnavigate.
noun:  (archaic except in the plural, formal, also figuratively) A surrounding area or place (especially of an urban settlement); an environment.

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