Meaning

6 senses

  1. (transitive)To bind with a flexible rope or cord.

    The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large.

    angurten, anbinden

    свя́зыватьsvjázyvatʹ, связа́тьsvjazátʹ

    bind with something round or circular

  2. (transitive)To encircle with, or as if with a belt.

    a castle girded with a moat

    The lady girt herself with silver chain, from which she hung a golden shear.

    umringen

    подпоя́сыватьpodpojásyvatʹ, подпоя́сатьpodpojásatʹ, окружа́тьokružátʹ

    підперізуватиpidperizuvaty

  3. (reflexive, transitive)To prepare (oneself) for an action.

    rüsten

    prepare oneself for a military confrontation

  4. (intransitive)(of a vessel towing another) To be pulled on sideways by its towline, putting it at risk of capsizing.

  5. (transitive)To jeer at.

    насмехатьсяnasmexatʹsja

  6. (intransitive)To jeer.

    насмехатьсяnasmexatʹsja

Examples

5 sentences

  1. They were girding for the exam.

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  2. She girded her waist with a belt.

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  3. The company is girding for an initial public offering to raise funds.

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  4. I'll put on a white shirt and gird myself with a silk sash.

    ruНадену белую рубаху и подпояшусь шёлковым кушаком. — Erviy

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  5. Gad, being girded, shall fight before him: and he himself shall be girded backward.

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Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to encircle with, or as if with a belt:
Русский
By meaning 3
to bind with a flexible rope or cord:
to encircle with, or as if with a belt:
To jeer at:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to bind with a flexible rope or cord:
to encircle with, or as if with a belt:
to prepare oneself:

Origin

From Middle English girden, gerden, gürden, from Old English gyrdan (“to put a belt around

From Middle English girden, gerden, gürden, from Old English gyrdan (“to put a belt around, to put a girdle around”), from Proto-Germanic *gurdijaną (“to gird”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-. Cognate with West Frisian gurdzje, girdzje, Dutch gorden, German gürten, Swedish gjorda, Icelandic gyrða, Albanian ngërthej (“to tie together by weaving, to bind”).

From Middle English girden (“to strike”), from Old English *gyrdan.

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Forms

girds, girding, girded, girded
Base formgird · to gird
3rd person singulargirds
Present participlegirding
Past simplegirded / girt
Past participlegirded / girt

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygird
he, she, itgirds

Past simpleLesson

all personsgirded

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave girded
he, she, ithas girded

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill gird

Synonyms

14 synonyms
scoffC1scornC1sneerB2girdlefloutjibefleerjeerlaugh at
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words
Relatedgirdergirdlegirtthrough-gird
Derivedbegirdengirdovergirdundergirdungirdupgird

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
ginkgoginormousginsenggiraffeB1girdergirdlegirlA1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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