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Encircle vs Engirt - What's the difference?

encircle | engirt |

As verbs the difference between encircle and engirt

is that encircle is to surround, form a circle around while engirt is (obsolete) to girt; to surround or encircle or engirt can be .

As an adjective engirt is

(rare) encircled, surrounded.

encircle

English

Verb

(encircl)
  • To surround, form a circle around.

    • Derived terms

    * encirclement

    engirt

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To girt; to surround or encircle.

    • Etymology 2

    Inflected forms.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (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.