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
  • Willmore drove it to the farm and wrapped its legs with wire, preparing it for hanging.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2026
  • The Yes tour wrapped a month later with a gig in Fort Wayne, Indiana, that marked keyboardist Patrick Moraz’s final show in the band.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2026
Definition of wrapped
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  • During the group stage, the team from tiny Curaçao, after a 7-1 loss to Germany, circled in prayer on the pitch.
    — the Monitor’s Editorial Board, Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2026
  • While Babcock never coached in Columbus, many will probably have this date circled.
    — Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 16 July 2026
Definition of circled
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  • While no official cause of death has been released and no charges have been made in Wells’ case, his death sparked racial tensions and widespread scrutiny after photos showed Wells surrounded by White friends while on the trip.
    — Holly Yan, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
  • Like its rooms, all three restaurants face the ocean; don’t miss dinner at the Ocean Grill, where you’ll be surrounded by three walls of 30-foot-tall floor-to-ceiling windows.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026
Definition of surrounded
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  • Ferguson’s ring features a central ruby encircled by diamonds that resemble flower petals.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 11 July 2026
  • In the 1940s, the Queen switched rings, and began wearing a ladylike large pearl, encircled with diamonds.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026
Definition of encircled
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  • Bear tracks showed where a pair of grizzlies had traversed our island and swum to the far shore.
    — John Todd, Outdoor Life, 9 July 2026
  • Some traffic traversed the strait on Tuesday, according to data and analytics company Kpler, which verified 41 crossings compared to 36 on Monday.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
Definition of traversed
Verb
  • Although the black hole itself is dark, it is orbited by a normal star with a mass 78% that of our sun.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 14 July 2026
  • The satellite has orbited Earth about once every hour and a half for more than two decades, and over time, friction with particles in the upper atmosphere has caused its orbit to decay.
    — Anna Y. Q. Ho, Scientific American, 29 June 2026
Definition of orbited
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  • Other area Costco stores are ringed around the suburbs, ten-plus miles from the urban core.
    — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 15 July 2026
  • Even Kerameikos, the ancient necropolis Thucydides called the city’s most beautiful quarter, comes ringed not with tour buses but with the kind of neighborhood tables—Osteria Mamma, Proveleggios—that locals keep to themselves.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026
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