girdle
noun
a lightweight undergarment, worn especially by women, often partly or entirely of elastic or boned, for supporting and giving a slimmer appearance to the abdomen, hips, and buttocks.
had girdled
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past perfectof girdle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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A lifelong yachtsman who had girdled the world under canvas, he once sailed his yacht Aloha to Gibraltar from Sandy Hook in 16 days.
From Time Magazine Archive
He did not know that they had girdled the tree, but he thought it not worth the while to go up there again that fall, since there were no more apples.
From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
Even as she sat there in her pink and white frailty she knew and nursed the secret for which he had girdled the world.
From Never-Fail Blake by Arthur Stringer
He had girdled himself about with perils, agonies of mind, innumerable fears, for this!
From Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
He had girdled it with gardens; he had sought to obliterate the memories of its old-time brutalities, its old-time bloodshed, by the institution of kindly sports and gentle pastimes.
From The Proud Prince by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
