girdled

verb

past tense of girdle
1
as in wrapped
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

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2
as in circled
to travel completely around an asteroid belt that girdles the inner planets of the solar system

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3
as in surrounded
to form a circle around the rings that famously girdle the planet Saturn

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Recent Examples of girdled Voles are likely to blame when previously-healthy plantings topple over for no apparent reason or when a tree is girdled around its base from gnawing. — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for girdled
  1. wrapped
  2. circled
  3. surrounded
  4. encircled
  5. traversed
  6. orbited
  7. ringed
Verb
  • After Jake Burger hit a solo home run in the second to put the Rangers ahead, Butler responded with a 394-footer that wrapped around the right-field pole to give the A's the lead.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Rather than using rigid, flat panels, the car is wrapped in an advanced, shade-tolerant photovoltaic skin.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Aug. 2026
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  • As the plane circled and prepared to return to the airport and emergency crews assembled, operations workers found the remains of the birds on the runway.
    — Amanda Jackson, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Citing the arrest affidavit, Law&Crime reported that Simpson allegedly approached another boat at a high rate of speed and circled the vessel several times before anchoring about 10 feet away.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of circled
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  • This autumn, the brand will open its first flagship at 35–37 Sloane Square in London, surrounded by premium lifestyle neighbours such as Tiffany & Co and Aesop.
    — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Hudson-Smith went into the stand and up the stairs to pose next to his name, draped in the British flag, but was surrounded by too many empty seats.
    — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of surrounded
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  • The pendant, which is encircled by diamonds, also includes a heart between the initials.
    — Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Lining the outer cell membrane, at the base of the cilia, were simple structures, each encircled by a single membrane.
    — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2026
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  • The bottom line An imperfect borrowing climate which has solidified thanks to an extended Fed rate pause will need to be traversed carefully.
    — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • Around 100 commercial vessels traversed the strait on a typical day before the war.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 27 July 2026
Definition of traversed
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  • Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon while Michael Collins orbited overhead.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2026
  • When Galileo orbited Jupiter, its high-gain antenna did not fully deploy, meaning the probe was never able to record detailed video of Jupiter's atmosphere as hoped.
    — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 5 Aug. 2026
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  • Each of the statues sits on a granite pedestal ringed with 36 stars, representing the states in the Union at the end of the Civil War.
    — Matt Viser, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Six years after the first vote, the site is still an aging arena ringed by parking lots.
    — Zack Defazio Farrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2026
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