Synonyms of the word

gird

• v. (transitive) To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
• v. (transitive) To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
• v. (transitive) To prepare oneself for an action.
• n. A sarcastic remark.
• n. A stroke with a rod or switch.
• n. A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
• v. (transitive) To jeer at.
• v. (intransitive) To jeer.

arm

• n. The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
• n. (anatomy) The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
• n. A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
• n. A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object,…
• n. (geography) A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
• n. A branch of an organization.
• n. (figuratively) Power; might; strength; support.
• n. (baseball, slang) A pitcher.
• n. (genetics) One of the two parts of a chromosome.
• n. A group of patients in a medical trial.
• v. To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
• v. To supply with arms or limbs.
• adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Poor; lacking in riches or wealth.
• adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To be pitied; pitiful; wretched.
• n. (usually used in the plural) A weapon.
• n. (in the plural) heraldic bearings or insignia.
• v. To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
• v. To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.
• v. To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
• v. (figuratively) To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
• v. To fit (a magnet) with an armature.

begird

• v. (transitive) To bind with a band or girdle.
• v. To encircle, surround, as with a gird; inclose; encompass.

bind

• v. (intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
• v. (intransitive) To cohere or stick together in a mass.
• v. (intransitive) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
• v. (intransitive) To exert a binding or restraining influence.
• v. (transitive) To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
• v. (transitive) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
• v. (transitive) To couple.
• v. (figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other…
• v. (law) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or…
• v. (law) To place under legal obligation to serve.
• v. (transitive) To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
• v. (transitive) To cover, as with a bandage.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action.
• v. (transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To make two or more elements stick together.
• v. (transitive, computing) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method…
• n. That which binds or ties.
• n. A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
• n. Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
• n. (music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
• n. (chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position that is difficult for the opponent to break.

border

• n. The outer edge of something.
• n. A decorative strip around the edge of something.
• n. A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
• n. The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
• n. (Britain) Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance…
• v. (transitive) To put a border on something.
• v. (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to a border.
• v. (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on or upon).
• v. (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge.

circle

• n. (geometry) A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a…
• n. A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a…
• n. Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.
• n. A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.
• n. Orbit.
• n. A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.
• n. (cricket) A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight…
• n. (Wicca) A ritual circle that is cast three times deosil and closes three times widdershins either in the…
• n. (South Africa) A traffic circle or roundabout.
• n. (obsolete) Compass; circuit; enclosure.
• n. (astronomy) An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed…
• n. A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
• n. (logic) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive…
• n. Indirect form of words; circumlocution.
• n. A territorial division or district.
• n. (in the plural) A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.
• v. (transitive) To travel around along a curved path.
• v. (transitive) To surround.
• v. (transitive) To place or mark a circle around.
• v. (intransitive) To travel in circles.

encircle

• v. (transitive) To surround, form a circle around.
• v. To move or go around completely.

environ

• n. (especially in plural) A surrounding area.
• v. To surround; to encircle.

fortify

• v. To increase the defenses of; to strengthen and secure by military works; to render defensible against…
• v. To impart strength or vigor to.
• v. To increase the effectiveness of, as by additional ingredients.

girdle

• n. That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference.
• n. A belt or elasticated corset; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually…
• n. The zodiac; also, the equator.
• n. The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
• n. (mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
• n. The clitellum of an earthworm.
• n. (Scotland, Northern English) Alternative form of griddle.
• v. (transitive) To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
• v. (transitive) To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.

girt

• n. A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more…
• v. To gird.
• v. To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.
• v. To measure the girth of.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of gird.
• adj. (nautical) Bound by a cable; used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of…
• adj. (Britain, rural dialect) Great.

girth

• n. A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle in place.
• n. The part of an animal around which the girth fits.
• n. (informal) One's waistline circumference, most often a large one.
• n. A small horizontal brace or girder.
• n. The distance measured around an object.
• n. (graph theory) The length of the shortest cycle in a graph.
• v. To bind as if with a girth or band.

ring

• n. (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
• n. (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle.
• n. A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
• n. A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a…
• n. An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
• n. (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
• n. (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
• n. (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
• n. (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
• n. (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level,…
• n. (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
• v. (transitive) To surround or enclose.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle.
• v. (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
• v. (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
• v. (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
• n. The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
• n. (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
• n. (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
• n. (colloquial) A telephone call.
• n. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
• n. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
• v. (intransitive) Of a bell, to produce sound.
• v. (transitive) To make (a bell) produce sound.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
• v. (transitive, colloquial, Britain, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
• v. (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
• v. (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
• v. (dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
• n. (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation…
• n. (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative…

round

• adj. (physical) Shape.
• adj. Complete, whole, not lacking.
• adj. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
• adj. (linguistics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together.
• adj. Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
• adj. Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
• adj. Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
• adj. Large in magnitude.
• n. A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
• n. A circular or repetitious route.
• n. A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
• n. A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
• n. A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
• n. A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
• n. One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
• n. (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
• n. A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical…
• n. (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing…
• n. (sports) A stage in a competition.
• n. (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
• n. (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for…
• n. A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary,…
• n. (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
• n. (dated) A rung, as of a ladder.
• n. A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
• n. A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance;…
• n. A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated…
• n. A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
• n. A circular dance.
• n. Rotation, as in office; succession.
• n. A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
• n. An assembly; a group; a circle.
• n. A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
• n. (archaic) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
• n. (nautical) A round-top.
• n. A round of beef.
• prep. (rare in US) Alternative form of around.
• adv. Alternative form of around.
• v. (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
• v. (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
• v. (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out.
• v. (intransitive) To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
• v. (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
• v. (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
• v. (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
• v. (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
• v. To encircle; to encompass.
• v. To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go or turn round; to wheel about.
• v. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak…
• v. (transitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter…
• n. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.
• n. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.

skirt

• n. An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower…
• n. The part of a dress or robe that hangs below the waist.
• n. A loose edging to any part of a dress.
• n. A petticoat.
• n. (pejorative, slang) A woman.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) Women collectively, in a sexual context.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
• n. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
• n. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
• v. To be on or form the border of.
• v. To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
• v. To cover with a skirt; to surround.

surround

• v. (transitive) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
• v. (transitive) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
• n. (Britain) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.