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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.
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for girdled
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One, a pediatric ER doctor, wrapped his arm in a makeshift tourniquet and stuffed the wound to staunch the bleeding while others called for help.—
Los Angeles Times,
Boston Herald,
8 June 2026
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We were all wrapped tightly in our uniforms, showing only our eyes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 June 2026
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Nowhere is the ham-handed effort more evident than in Texas, where a blend of culture war grievance and incel-targeting rage have circled the sharp-witted but mild-mannered Talarico, whose campaign is shaping up to be a fundraising juggernaut.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
2 June 2026
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McKenna circled the offensive zone, waiting and watching.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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Sitting in the dark press junket room surrounded by cameras and television screens, the brothers Wayans bounce jokes off each other and finish each other’s sentences like identical twins.—
Datwon Thomas,
VIBE.com,
6 June 2026
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The current patio is surrounded by plants and trees too.—
Pamela McLoughlin,
Hartford Courant,
6 June 2026
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Just under 300,000 years from the moment Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, the species had encircled Earth, mastering desolate deserts and frozen wastelands and all the temperate climes in between.—
Cody Cottier,
Scientific American,
4 June 2026
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Her daughter, Soraya, had taken refuge there with her three children, Christina, Charbel, and Elias, after fleeing Debl, a Christian border village now encircled by Israeli troops.—
Euan Ward,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
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Named after a Norwegian ship that traversed the North and South poles at the turn of the 20th Century, Fram2 sought to pay homage to its namesake with a pioneering polar voyage of its own.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
28 May 2026
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As imperial forces traversed continents, the meanings and uses of these arrivals—whether people, plants, or ideologies— were actively negotiated and reshaped by the societies and environments compelled to contend with them.—
Sophia Rey,
JSTOR Daily,
28 May 2026
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Not by measure alone, but presence — a dynamic force that others orbited.—
Dan Robson,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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Tito orbited Earth 128 times and even did some science experiments.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2026
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And even in Moscow, which open-source intelligence analysts say has been ringed by more than 100 air defense systems amid Ukraine's expanding strike campaign, the threat from Kyiv appears to be more present than ever before.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
4 June 2026
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Visitors enter through 2nd-century Hadrian’s Arch and find the Temple of Zeus, the Hippodrome, the Temple of Artemis and a forum ringed by 56 Corinthian columns.—
Hanna Wickes,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2026
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“Girdled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/girdled. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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