| 单词 | gird |
| 释义 | gird (once / 1153 pages) v "Gird your loins and prepare for battle!" Okay, no one says "gird your loins" anymore (which basically means "tighten your pants"), but gird is still used as a verb to mean "get ready for a dangerous situation." To gird is to prepare for a military attack, but more loosely it refers to readying oneself for any kind of confrontation. When you gird for something, you are preparing for the worst-case scenario. Gird can also mean "fasten something tightly with a belt or a band" (as in "gird your loins"), or it can mean "to surround or encircle." A field that is girded by trees is surrounded and encircled by trees. WORD FAMILYgird: girded, girding, girds, girt, undergird+/undergird: undergirded, undergirding, undergirds, undergirt USAGE EXAMPLESNow Saudis are girding themselves for additional cuts that risk provoking public ire. Wall Street Journal(Dec 21, 2016) Environmental groups say they are girding up to defend the Obama administration’s environmental legacy in court. Seattle Times(Dec 08, 2016) Fillon, no doubt, will be watching what is now unfolding in France's southern neighbor as he girds for battle. Reuters(Dec 05, 2016) 1v bind with something round or circular Syn|Hypo|Hyper encircle hoop bind or fasten with a hoop bind make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope 2v put a girdle on or around gird your loins Syn|Hyper girdle border, environ, ring, skirt, surround extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle 3v prepare oneself for a military confrontation The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East Syn|Ant|Hypo arm, build up, fortify demilitarise, demilitarize, disarm remove offensive capability from re-arm, rearm arm anew forearmarm in advance of a confrontation |
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