Usually means: Surround, encircle, or enclose completely.
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  1. engirdle: Merriam-Webster
  2. engirdle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. engirdle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. engirdle: Wordnik
  5. engirdle: Wiktionary
  6. engirdle: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Engirdle, engirdle: Dictionary.com
  8. Engirdle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. engirdle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Engirdle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. engirdle: FreeDictionary.org
  12. engirdle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. engirdle: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (engirdle)

▸ verb:  To encircle as if with a girdle.

Similar:
begirdle, gird, girdle, begird, engirt, encincture, engird, beknit, engirth, ring in, more...

Opposite:
ungirdle, unfasten, unbelt, unbuckle, loosen

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Similar:
begirdle, gird, girdle, begird, engirt, encincture, engird, beknit, engirth, ring in, more...

Opposite:
ungirdle, unfasten, unbelt, unbuckle, loosen



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