"engirdle" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From en- + girdle.",
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          "ref": "1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 51:",
          "text": "Still higher, on their left, the elevation called Bulbarrow, or Bealbarrow, well-nigh the highest in South Wessex, swelled into the sky, engirdled by its earthen trenches.",
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        "To encircle as if with a girdle."
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "engird"
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  "word": "engirdle"
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  "etymology_text": "From en- + girdle.",
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    {
      "form": "engirdles",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "engirdled",
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        "To encircle as if with a girdle."
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      "word": "engird"
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