begird
61cincture — (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To encircle with or as if with a band: band1, begird, belt, compass, encompass, engirdle, gird, girdle, girt, ring1. Archaic: engird. See EDGE …
62engird — (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb Archaic. To encircle with or as if with a band: band1, begird, belt, cincture, compass, encompass, engirdle, gird, girdle, girt, ring.1 See EDGE …
63engirdle — (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To encircle with or as if with a band: band1, begird, belt, cincture, compass, encompass, gird, girdle, girt, ring1. Archaic: engird. See EDGE …
64environ — (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To shut in on all sides: begird, beset, circle, compass, encircle, encompass, gird, girdle, hedge, hem, ring1, surround. See OPEN …
65girt — (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To encircle with or as if with a band: band1, begird, belt, cincture, compass, encompass, engirdle, gird, girdle, ring1. Archaic: engird. See EDGE …
66engird — v. a. Surround, environ, gird, begird, encircle, encompass …
67environ — v. a. 1. Surround, encompass, encircle, envelop, gird, begird, engird, belt, enclose. 2. Invest, besiege, beset, encompass …
68gird — I. v. a. 1. Girdle, bind round, bind with a girdle. 2. Surround, encircle, encompass, enclose, environ, engird, begird. 3. Clothe, invest, equip, furnish. 4. Reproach, gibe, sneer at, lash, satirize. II. v. n. Gibe, sneer, make scornful jests,… …
69beleaguer — v surround, encompass, circumscribe; environ, ring, encircle, circle, begird, girdle, engird; confine, hem in, gird, hedge, limit, bound; enclose, ensphere, contain, corral, fence, picket, pen, box in, shut in, blockade, block; siege, besiege,… …
70belt — n 1. girdle, sash, waistband, cummerbund, cestus, Archaic. zone, Archaic, Poetic. cincture; baldric, cord, cordon, braid, thong, strap, (for a horse) surcingle. 2. band, headband, ribbon, frontlet, fillet; collar, collarband, neckband; hatband,… …
