Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of binding, confining, or retaining with a girdle: usually with up.
- noun The use or office of a girdle in retaining garments; also, something girded on.
- Gibing; taunting; sarcastic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That with which one is girded; a girdle.
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- verb Present participle of
gird .
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Examples
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But the problem is less in the numbers than in the Corps's general approach - that is, the idea of girding for a "Katrina-like event."
John McQuaid: Backing Away, Bit by Bit, from New Orleans 2008
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– I do require a general structure to work with, one that is flexible but also provides some kind of girding to hold up the characters and ideas and themes and moods I’m working with.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Plotting for the Severely Right Brained 2009
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"girding" them "with strength unto the battle," and in giving them a
Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink 1847
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I have never been back to the site and don't know if or when I will again, but I am girding myself for the 9/11 Ground Hog Day, the painful and frightening images that reappear for days, over and over again with a vengeance.
Sharon Premoli: Ten Years Sharon Premoli 2011
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I have never been back to the site and don't know if or when I will again, but I am girding myself for the 9/11 Ground Hog Day, the painful and frightening images that reappear for days, over and over again with a vengeance.
Sharon Premoli: Ten Years Sharon Premoli 2011
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The Palm Beach Post/Zuma Press Chili's restaurants, like this one in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., are girding for insurance expenses to rise under the new U.S. health-care law.
Chili's Feels Heat to Pare Costs Julie Jargon 2011
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After a long tough winter, many grizzlies, black bears, wolves and cougars are girding themselves for the onslaught of "sportsmen" wielding high-powered rifles in search of "trophies."
Chris Genovali: The Cruelest Month for British Columbia's Coastal Carnivores Chris Genovali 2011
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The keepers of Wall Street history were girding for the storm as well.
Wall Street Ready for a Real Storm Steve Eder 2011
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After a long tough winter, many grizzlies, black bears, wolves and cougars are girding themselves for the onslaught of "sportsmen" wielding high-powered rifles in search of "trophies."
Chris Genovali: The Cruelest Month for British Columbia's Coastal Carnivores Chris Genovali 2011
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Christians and Jews in the USA often cite the religious values girding our democracy.
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