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.
is girdling
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present progressiveof girdle (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It is girdling the tree now, so as to destroy it more early next year.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
What is the key to the greatest scientific discovery of modern times, viz. wireless or aetherial telegraphy, which is girdling the earth with its mysterious communications?
From Aether and Gravitation by William George Hooper
Look where you will, immeasurable Obscurantism is girdling this fair France; which, again, will not be girdled by it.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
But now the blue wall is girdling the very crest of the hill; it stops, shrivels.
From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan
