Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To encircle or surround with or as if with a girdle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To inclose; surround.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
encircle as if with agirdle .
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Examples
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As all men know, somewhere in the great seas that engirdle our dominion, somewhere beyond the Ultimate Thule, there rangeth a vast monster, intolerable, not to be borne.
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As all men know, somewhere in the great seas that engirdle our dominion, somewhere beyond the Ultimate Thule, there rangeth a vast monster, intolerable, not to be borne.
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She ceased to resist so ardently, let the anguish engirdle her, do its worst.
Mary Christina 2004
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Why engirdle its waist in warmth and cordage, and expose its feet to every storm and frost, to mud and snow?
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It would be a society of scouts for observing and recording sunbeams, and the members would engirdle the earth in quest of good news.
Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers 1817-1893 1913
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The cirri of one set, the anterior, extend forward about twice the length of the anterior half; those of the posterior set closely engirdle the lower half, reaching not quite to the posterior extremity.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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"The seas which engirdle this island," the Ambassador said thoughtfully,
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If you choose, plant the foot of the ladder in a fiery test and engirdle each round with a forest of thorns.
The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist Robert E. [Illustrator] Bell 1902
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The allied forces stood behind Schweidnitz, and by the same marvelous strategy as of old the various corps of the French army were disposed, under Ney, Lauriston, Reynier, Macdonald, and Bertrand, so as virtually to engirdle the enemy.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889
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That engirdle the brows of the day when he sinks with a spasm into rest
The Heptalogia Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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