ENGIRD

  

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ENGIRD

Definition: ENGIRD

ENGIRD

Transitive verb

1. To gird; to encompass.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ENGIRD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Synonyms within Context: ENGIRD

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Circumjacence

Verb: lie around; adVerb: surround, beset, compass, encompass, environ, inclose, enclose, encircle, embrace, circumvent, lap, gird; belt; begird, engird; skirt, twine round; hem in; (circumscribe).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: ENGIRD

English words defined with "ENGIRD": Engirded, Engirding, Engirt. (references)

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Modern Translations: ENGIRD

Language Translations for "ENGIRD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rrethoj (begird, beleaguer, beset, besiege, border on, circle, circumscribe, circumvent, close in, close on, compass, embosom, embower, encircle, enclose, encompass, engirdle, entwine, envelop, environ, fence in, flank, fold, gird, girdle, hedge in, hem, inclose, invest, lap, leaguer, pocket, rail, rim, ring, round up, span, surround, wreathe). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

обкръжавам (beleaguer, beset, circle, embosom, encircle, encompass, envelop, environ, hoop, invest, rabble, rim, ring, surround), опасвам (crop, engirdle, gird, girdle, graze down). (various references)

   

Czech

  

opásat (gird), obklopit (beset, cluster round, encompass, envelop, environ, hem in, ring, surround). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

περιζώνω (begird, belt, cincture, embed, skirt, zone). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

körülövez (engirdle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

engirday

   

Russian 

  

опоясывать (begird, engirdle, gird, zone). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zaokružiti (circularize, encompass, engirdle, make a circle, round off). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kuşatmak (begird, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bottle up, cincture, circle, compass, embosom, encircle, enclose, encompass, engirdle, envelop, environ, equip, gird, girdle, Girt, girth, hedge in, hedge round, hem about, hem around, hem in, inclose, invest, lay siege to, ring, shut in, surround, zone), kemer gibi sarmak (engirdle). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

оперізувати (engirdle, twine). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: ENGIRD

Derivations

Words beginning with "ENGIRD": engirded, engirding, engirdle, engirdled, engirdles, engirdling, engirds. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ENGIRD

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dinger, girned, reding, ringed.

Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-n-r"

-1 letter: deign, diner, dinge, dirge, gride, grind, reign, renig, ridge.

-2 letters: deni, dine, ding, dire, dreg, gied, gien, gird, girn, grid, grin, ired, nerd, nide, rein, rend, ride, rind, ring.

-3 letters: den, die, dig, din, end, eng, erg, ern, ged, gen, gid, gie, gin, ire, red, reg, rei, rid, rig, rin.

-4 letters: de, ed, en, er, id, in, ne, re.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-n-r"
 

+1 letter: cringed, deraign, dingers, dingier, dreeing, dungier, energid, engirds, eroding, fringed, gradine, grained, grinded, grinder, grinned, groined, herding, ignored, negroid, reading, redding, redoing, redwing, reeding, regrind, reigned, rending, wringed.

 

+2 letters: adhering, bearding, beringed, breading, breeding, deairing, decrying, deraigns, derating, deriding, deringer, deriving, designer, desiring, dowering, dragline, drainage, dreading, dreaming, dredging, dressing, enduring, energids, engirded, engirdle, fingered, gardenia, gingered, gradient, gradines, grinders, grindery, gueridon, indulger, lingered, margined, midrange, negroids, nidering, ordering, organdie, readding, readings, readying, receding, recoding, redating, reddling, redesign, redrying, reducing, redwings, redyeing, reedings, reedling, regained, regrinds, rehinged, renigged, residing, resigned, ringdove, ringside, rodeoing, springed, stringed, synergid, syringed, treading, trending, ungirded, unrigged.

 

+3 letters: adverting, arraigned, astringed, badgering, bargained, bedraping, bedspring, befringed, begirding, birdieing, bordering, breedings, burdening, chagrined, cindering, crediting, dackering, daggering, daikering, dandering, dangering, darkening, debarking, debarring, debriding, decerning, declaring, decreeing, decurving, deferring, deforcing, deforming, defraying, degerming, degrading, dehorning, dehorting, demarking, demerging, demurring, denigrate, departing, deperming, deploring, deporting, depraving, depriving, deraigned, derailing, deranging, deratting, deringers, derringer, descrying, deserting, deserving, designers, desorbing, deterging, deterring, detouring, detruding, devouring, deworming, diapering, dickering, differing, directing, dithering, divergent, diverging, diverting, doddering, dogearing, draglines, drainages, dredgings, drenching, dressings, driveling, endearing, endoergic, endorsing, energised, energized, engirding, engirdled, engirdles, engrailed, engrained, extruding, foddering, foredoing, friending, gabardine, gaberdine, gandering, gardenias, gardening, garnished, gendering, gerundive, gesneriad, girandole, gondolier, gradients, grandiose, grandsire, gratineed, grenadier, grenadine, gueridons, hagridden, hardening, heralding, hindering, humdinger, impregned, indulgers, infringed, ingrafted, ingrained, integrand, intrigued, juddering, laddering, midranges, moldering, murdering, negritude, niderings, niggarded, nigrified, organdies, organised, organized, overdoing, pandering, perduring, pervading, pondering, powdering, preceding, precoding, predating, prefading, preluding, presiding, realigned, rebidding, rebinding, rebodying, recording, redacting, reddening, redeeming, redefying, redenying, redesigns, redialing, redingote, redipping, redlining, redocking, redonning, redrawing, redriving, redubbing, reediting, reedlings, refeeding, refinding, refolding, refunding, regarding, regilding, regrading, reignited, rejudging, relending, reloading, remanding, remedying, remending, reminding, remolding, rendering, rereading, reseeding, resending, resodding, respading, retarding, rewarding, rewedding, rewelding, rewinding, rewording, ridgeline, ridgeling, rigidness, ringdoves, ringsides, screeding, shredding, sniggered, soldering, spreading, sundering, synergids, tendering, threading, tragedian, treadling, treddling, unbridged, undergird, undergirt, underling, underwing, ungodlier, vinegared, wandering, wildering, wondering.

 

+4 letters: abridgment, addressing, adrenergic, aggrandise, aggrandize, androgenic, bartending, becrowding, bedirtying, bedrugging, bedsprings, bedwarfing, befingered, begirdling, begrudging, bestriding, blundering, brigandage, brigandine, brightened, broadening, broidering, burgundies, centigrade, chagrinned, chowdering, coderiving, coenduring, configured, cordelling, corrigenda, daringness, daundering, deaerating, debriefing, debruising, decentring, decoloring, decorating, decreasing, decrowning, decrypting, defrauding, defrocking, defrosting, degreasing, delivering, demeriting, denaturing, denigrated, denigrates, denigrator, deorbiting, depressing, depurating, deraigning, deridingly, derogating, derogation, derringers, describing, deservings, designator, despairing, destroying, desugaring, dethroning, detracting, detraining, dewatering, digressing, digression, dimerizing, disarrange, discerning, disgruntle, dispersing, disserting, disserving, divergence, divergency, drivelling, endergonic, enduringly, engineered, engirdling, eradiating, everduring, federating, fingerhold, firefanged, foreboding, foredating, forfending, foundering, frightened, frigidness, gabardines, gaberdines, garnisheed, garrisoned, gentrified, germanized, germinated, gerundives, gesneriads, girandoles, girlfriend, gondoliers, gorgonized, gormandise, gormandize, grainfield, grandniece, grandsires, greediness, greenfield, grenadiers, grenadines, grinderies, grindstone, guarantied, guerdoning, gynandries, hardenings, headspring, highbinder, highlander, humdingers, inbreeding, ingathered, ingredient, integrands, integrated, intergrade, jargonized, jeoparding, ladyfinger, laundering, legendries, lipreading, longhaired, malingered, marginated, maundering, meandering, misreading, moderating, mouldering, mudslinger, negritudes, neighbored, nightdress, nonreading, originated, outgrinned, outreading, overdaring, overdesign, overdosing, overdrying, overdyeing, overlading, overriding, pedicuring, peroxiding, perpending, persuading, plundering, portending, prebinding, precluding, predicting, preediting, prejudging, premolding, pretending, proceeding, propending, protending, radiogenic, reacceding, readapting, readopting, readorning, reassigned, reblending, reboarding, rebounding, rebreeding, rebuilding, recognised, recognized, recordings, redamaging, redarguing, redbaiting, redeciding, redefining, redesigned, redialling, redingotes, redividing, redoubling, redounding, redrafting, redreaming, redressing, redrilling, reedifying, reendowing, reflooding, refounding, regimented, regrinding, rehandling, reimagined, reindexing, reinducing, reinvading, rekindling, remodeling, renegading, reordering, repleading, repledging, rereadings, resaddling, rescinding, reshingled, resignedly, resounding, responding, restudying, retreading, rewidening, ridgelines, ridgelings, ringbarked, ringleader, sanderling, scowdering, semidrying, serenading, shuddering, slandering, smaragdine, smoldering, soldiering, springhead, springtide, stewarding, stringendo, thundering, torpedoing, tragedians, turgidness, unabridged, underdoing, undergirds, undergoing, underlings, underlying, underwings, undressing, untreading, wanderings, wingspread.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ENGIRD


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 4E 47 49 52 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01001110 01000111 01001001 01010010 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004E 0047 0049 0052 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

394841435238

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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