different between encircle vs engirt

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?s??k?l/, (US) IPA^(key): /?n?s??k?l/
• Rhymes: -??(r)k?l

Etymology

en- +? circle

Verb

encircle (third-person singular simple present encircles, present participle encircling, simple past and past participle encircled)

1. (transitive) To surround, form a circle around.
2. To move or go around completely.

Synonyms

• circulize

Translations

Derived terms

• encirclement

Anagrams

• licencer

English

Etymology 1

From en- +? girt.

Verb

engirt (third-person singular simple present engirts, present participle engirting, simple past and past participle engirted)

1. (obsolete) To girt; to surround or encircle.

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Verb

engirt

1. past participle of engird

Adjective

engirt (comparative more engirt, superlative most engirt)

1. (rare) Encircled, surrounded.
   • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 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.

Anagrams

• Ginter, Tengri, Tigner, erting, tinger