gird

Speech parts

1. gird - Noun

2. gird - Verb

Meaning

A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.

A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer.

To strike; to smite.

To sneer at; to mock; to gibe.

To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms.

To encircle or bind with any flexible band.

To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.

To surround; to encircle, or encompass.

To clothe; to swathe; to invest.

To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest.

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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things. Felicia Hemans

You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier if you don't have to gird your loins, if that's not quite the right phrase, every time you're going to do a scene with that person. Hugh Dancy

So many minds did gird their orbs with beams, Tho' one did fling the fire; Heaven flow'd upon the soul in many dreams Of high desire. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Cease therefore to be dismayed by the mere novelty and so to reject reason from your mind with loathing: weigh the questions rather with keen judgment and if they seem to you to be true, surrender, or if the thing is false, gird yourself to the encounter. Lucretius

Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition. Edith Head

The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East Source: Internet

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