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girdle
- IPA[ˈɡərd(ə)l]
美式
- a belt or cord worn around the waist.;a woman's elasticized corset extending from waist to thigh.
- encircle (the body) with or as a girdle or belt;surround; encircle
verb: girdle, 3rd person present: girdles, gerund or present participle: girdling, past tense: girdled, past participle: girdled
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. a belt or cord worn around the waist. 同義詞
- ▪ a woman's elasticized corset extending from waist to thigh. 同義詞
- ▪ a thing that surrounds something like a belt or girdle a communications girdle around the world
- ▪ either of two sets of bones encircling the body, to which the limbs are attached.
- ▪ the part of a cut gem dividing the crown from the base and embraced by the setting.
- ▪ a ring around a tree made by removing bark.
動詞
- 1. encircle (the body) with or as a girdle or belt the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist
- ▪ surround; encircle the chain of volcanoes that girdles the Pacific
- 2. cut through the bark all the way around (a tree or branch), typically in order to kill it or to kill a branch to make the tree more fruitful sometimes the trees were completely girdled and died