What's the difference between engird and engirdle?

Engird


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To gird; to encompass.

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Engirdle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Who knows, perhaps soon the concealed British penises of yesteryear might become proudly erect and engirdled with daisy chains wreathed by ardent lady lovers – just like in the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover , the ban on which had been overturned in 1960.
  • (2) One should distinguish between ulcerations with origin in the external or internal fascia; also between periphlebitic, engirdling, "blow-out", hypodermitic and siderosclerotic ulcers, and between ulcers due to erosion or venous stasis.

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