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verb
- 1. encircle (a person or part of the body) with a belt or band: literary "a young man was to be girded with the belt of knighthood"
- 2. prepare oneself for something difficult or challenging: "they are girding themselves for the upcoming court case" Similar
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GIRD definition: 1. to tie something around your body or part of your body: 2. to tie something around your body or…. Learn more.
1. : to prepare (oneself) for action. 2. a. : to encircle or bind with a flexible band (such as a belt) b. : to make (something, such as clothing or a sword ) fast or secure (as with a cord or belt) gird a sword by a belt. c. : surround. 3. : provide, equip. especially : to invest with the sword of knighthood. intransitive verb.
To gird is to prepare for a military attack, but more loosely it refers to readying oneself for any kind of confrontation. When you gird for something, you are preparing for the worst-case scenario. Gird can also mean "fasten something tightly with a belt or a band" (as in "gird your loins"), or it can mean "to surround or encircle." A field ...
to tie something around your body or part of your body: The knights girded them selves for battle (= put on their swords and fighting clothes). SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Fastening and tying. be locked together idiom. belay. bind. board something up. bound. bowline. clamp. gag. half hitch. harness. hobble. hogtie. knotted. stake.
Definition of 'gird' gird. (gɜːʳd ) Word forms: girds , girding , girded. 1. verb. If you gird yourself for a battle or contest, you prepare yourself for it. [literary] With audiences in the U.S. falling for the first time in a generation, Hollywood is girding itself for recession. [V pron-refl + for] 2. to gird your loins. More Synonyms of gird.
Gird definition: to encircle or bind with a belt or band.. See examples of GIRD used in a sentence.
Definition of gird verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. to put a belt, girdle, etc, around (the waist or hips) 2. to bind or secure with or as if with a belt: to gird on one's armour. 3. to surround; encircle. 4. to prepare (oneself) for action (esp in the phrase gird (up) one's loins) 5. to endow with a rank, attribute, etc, esp knighthood.
Meaning & use. 1.a. Old English–. transitive. To surround, encircle (the waist, a person about the waist) with a belt or girdle, esp. for the purpose of confining the garments and allowing freer action to the body. Chiefly reflexive or passive; also, after Biblical phrase, to gird one's loins, to gird one's reins, etc.
to encircle or bind with a belt or band. to surround; enclose; hem in. to prepare (oneself ) for action: He girded himself for the trial ahead. to provide, equip, or invest, as with power or strength. bef. 950; Middle English girden, Old English gyrdan; cognate with German gürten. gird′ing•ly, adv. 3. brace, steel, fortify, strengthen.
