engirt
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
engirt (third-person singular simple present engirts, present participle engirting, simple past and past participle engirted)
Etymology 2[edit]
Inflected forms.
Verb[edit]
engirt
- past participle of engird
Adjective[edit]
engirt (comparative more engirt, superlative most engirt)
- (rare) Encircled, surrounded.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 64:
- They noted too his cavalier way with the facts of a case, and his ability to twist the most mundane judicial dictum into the pronouncement of some engirt tyrant, whose fortress he and he alone must storm.