girdle

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of GIRDLE

to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt <trees girdled the campus, essentially hiding it from view> <wire girdling the bundle of firewood>

Synonyms band, begird, belt, engird [archaic], engirdle, enwind, girdle, girt, girth, wrap

Related Words tie up, truss; circle, enwreathe, loop, wind, wreathe; bandage, enswathe, swathe; chain, cord, enchain, lash, rope, shackle, tape, wire

Near Antonyms unbind, unlash, unshackle, untie, unwind

Antonyms ungird, unwrap

to travel completely around <an asteroid belt that girdles the inner planets of the solar system>

Synonyms circle, circuit, circumnavigate, circumvent, compass, girdle, orbit, ring, round

Related Words circumambulate, cross, perambulate, traverse

to form a circle around <the rings that famously girdle the planet Saturn>

Synonyms circle, compass, embrace, encircle, enclose (also inclose), encompass, environ, gird, girdle, ring, wreathe

Related Words circumscribe, close in, cordon (off), fence (in), hem (in), wall; beset, besiege, entrench (also intrench), invest, swarm

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