girdle

girdle is a 6-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A griddle. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A griddle.
2. noun. That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.
3. noun. The zodiac; also, the equator.
4. noun. The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.
5. noun. A thin bed or stratum of stone.
6. noun. The clitellus of an earthworm.
7. transitive verb. To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
8. transitive verb. To inclose; to environ; to shut in.
9. transitive verb. To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.
10. noun. a woman's close-fitting foundation garment

    Synonyms: corset, stays

11. noun. a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers

    Synonyms: cincture, sash, waistband, waistcloth

12. noun. an encircling or ringlike structure
13. verb. put a girdle on or around

    "gird your loins"

    Synonyms: gird

14. verb. cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients

    "girdle the plant"

    Synonyms: deaden

Synonyms

corset, stays, cincture, sash, waistband, waistcloth, gird, deaden

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in girdle:

gilder, glider, regild, ridgel

Common word forms

girdled, girdler, girdles, girdling

Words from these letters

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