girdled
/gur-dl/US // ˈgɜr dl //UK // (ˈɡɜːdəl) //
带状的,带状,捆绑式的,捆绑式
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n.名词 noun
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- : a lightweight undergarment, worn especially by women, often partly or entirely of elastic or boned, for supporting and giving a slimmer appearance to the abdomen, hips, and buttocks.
- : a belt, cord, sash, or the like, worn about the waist.
- : anything that encircles, confines, or limits.
- : Jewelry. the edge or narrow band between the upper and lower facets of a gem.
- : Anatomy. the bony framework that unites the upper or lower extremities to the axial skeleton.
- : Architecture. an ornamental band, especially one surrounding the shaft of a column.
- : a ring made about a tree trunk, branch, etc., by removing a band of bark.
v.有主动词 verb
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gir·dled, gir·dling.
- : to encircle with a belt; gird.
- : to encompass; enclose; encircle.
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Examples
Each of these minarets was girdled, halfway up, by a narrow balcony.
A brush-field girdled by a fence was passed, then a meadow, all golden in the sun.
In this method, trees are girdled with an ax and thereby weakened to such a degree that beetles are attracted to it.
He knows then that this tree was girdled by bark beetles very recently, probably during the previous summer.
It sank in Rhoda like the preaching of an end that was promise of a beginning, and girdled a distancing land of trouble.
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