girdle

1 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, gird, girt, girth, wrapRelated Words tie up, truss; circle, enwreathe, loop, wind, wreathe; bandage, enswathe, swathe; chain, cord, enchain, lash, rope, shackle, tape, wireNear Antonyms unbind, unlash, unshackle, untie, unwindAntonyms ungird, unwrap

2 to travel completely around an asteroid belt that girdles the inner planets of the solar system Synonyms circle, circuit, circumnavigate, circumvent, compass, encircle, orbit, ring, roundRelated Words circumambulate, cross, perambulate, traverse

3 to form a circle around the rings that famously girdle the planet Saturn Synonyms circle, compass, embrace, encircle, enclose (also inclose), encompass, environ, gird, surround, ring, wreatheRelated Words circumscribe, close in, cordon (off), fence (in), hem (in), wall; beset, besiege, entrench (also intrench), invest, swarm