GIRDLED Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

girdled

verb

past tense of girdle

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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as in circled

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

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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

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Every wrapped stock that trades successfully today, and every charter proving regulated money movement can run through a single federal structure, makes the case for native issuance easier to make tomorrow.

— Ivan Kan, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
After principal photography wrapped, many months would be spent in post-production augmenting the voices to create the right tone and weave them into the overall soundscape.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of wrapped

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In some cases, the participants circled around actual roundtables, while some were standing in small huddles standing in the corners of the room.

— Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2026
The orbiter's science orbit circled Mars on an extreme path, approaching as close as 227 miles (365 kilometers) and extending as far out as 49,710 miles (80,000 km).

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of circled

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Silly, witty, and sociable, the duo moved to Durham Cottage in London, where there were happy days surrounded by everyone from John Gielgud to Graham Greene, Orson Welles, John and Mary Mills, Noël Coward, and William Wyler.

— Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 21 Sep. 2026
Her work surrounded them, and her studio, the grandest space in the house, stood open just beyond the living room.

— Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of surrounded

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Ironically, the city’s position in a beautiful valley—encircled by the ridges of the Cumberland Plateau, at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains—also led to some persistent environmental issues.

— Daliah Singer, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2026
The soccer ball, muddy from outside, is encircled in one arm.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026

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The starry event has traversed the globe from New York City to London to Paris to LA and with each location the celebration of fashion, celebrity, and performance has reached new heights.

— Glamour, Glamour, 15 Sep. 2026
To find their bodies, that afternoon Comella and other firemen traversed the steep, smoldering steel mountain using a series of ladders, a process not unlike the way trekkers negotiate the treacherous Khumbu ice fall at the base of Mount Everest.

— Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of traversed

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The $496 million GRAIL probes orbited the moon in an extremely low orbit, coming within 30 miles (50 km) of the lunar surface at their closest approach.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2026
In fact, just one spacecraft, NASA’s MESSENGER, has ever orbited the planet.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of orbited

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Outside a rehearsal space in this city ringed by mountains, opera singer Michael Kuhn was practicing fly casting.

— Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2026
If your glasses always come out of the dishwasher looking cloudy or your faucets are ringed with white residue, hard water could be the reason.

— Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026

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