Ready and Surround

Ready

Ready verb - To make competent (as by training, skill, or ability) for a particular office or function.

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Surround and ready are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Surround" instead a verb "Ready".

Nearby Words: readiness, readily, readying, readied

Surround verb - To form a circle around.

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Ready and surround are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ready" instead a verb "Surround".

Nearby Words: surrounded, surrounding

force	ready force	surround force
body	ready body	surround body
point	ready point	surround point
place	ready place	surround place
Other words: earth, ship, forces, heroes.

Later they surround them with pissed looks in their faces and ready to pull their guns out due to their "testes 1-2-3" joke, thinking it's a code to assassinate the president.

Source: Western Animation / Beavis and Butt-Head
Powder Keg Crowd: When children start dying after Arthur arrives in town, the townsfolk blame him because of his connection with the manor, and at one point surround Daily's car as he's ready to drive out of town.

Source: Film / The Woman in Black

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