gird
verb🔊/ɡɜːd/
🔊/ɡɜːrd/
(literary)Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they gird | 🔊/ɡɜːd/ 🔊/ɡɜːrd/ |
| he / she / it girds | 🔊/ɡɜːdz/ 🔊/ɡɜːrdz/ |
| past simple girded | 🔊/ˈɡɜːdɪd/ 🔊/ˈɡɜːrdɪd/ |
| past participle girded | 🔊/ˈɡɜːdɪd/ 🔊/ˈɡɜːrdɪd/ |
| -ing form girding | 🔊/ˈɡɜːdɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈɡɜːrdɪŋ/ |
- gird somebody/something (with something)
to surround something with something; to fasten something around somebody/something 束紧；系上；捆上；缠上 Word OriginOld English gyrdan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gorden and German gürten, also to girdle and girth.