Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to girdle
Participle: girdled
Gerund: girdling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | girdle |
| you | girdle |
| he;she;it | girdles |
| we | girdle |
| you | girdle |
| they | girdle |
Perfect
| I | have girdled |
| you | have girdled |
| he;she;it | has girdled |
| we | have girdled |
| you | have girdled |
| they | have girdled |
Past
| I | girdled |
| you | girdled |
| he;she;it | girdled |
| we | girdled |
| you | girdled |
| they | girdled |
Pluperfect
| I | had girdled |
| you | had girdled |
| he;she;it | had girdled |
| we | had girdled |
| you | had girdled |
| they | had girdled |
Future
| I | will girdle |
| you | will girdle |
| he;she;it | will girdle |
| we | will girdle |
| you | will girdle |
| they | will girdle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have girdled |
| you | will have girdled |
| he;she;it | will have girdled |
| we | will have girdled |
| you | will have girdled |
| they | will have girdled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | girdle |
| you | girdle |
| he;she;it | girdle |
| we | girdle |
| you | girdle |
| they | girdle |
Perfect
| I | have girdled |
| you | have girdled |
| he;she;it | have girdled |
| we | have girdled |
| you | have girdled |
| they | have girdled |
Imperfect
| I | girdled |
| you | girdled |
| he;she;it | girdled |
| we | girdled |
| you | girdled |
| they | girdled |
Pluperfect
| I | had girdled |
| you | had girdled |
| he;she;it | had girdled |
| we | had girdled |
| you | had girdled |
| they | had girdled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would girdle |
| you | would girdle |
| he;she;it | would girdle |
| we | would girdle |
| you | would girdle |
| they | would girdle |
Perfect
| I | would have girdled |
| you | would have girdled |
| he;she;it | would have girdled |
| we | would have girdled |
| you | would have girdled |
| they | would have girdled |
Imperative
| you | girdle |
| we | Let's girdle |
| you | girdle |
Verbs conjugated like 'girdle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'girdle'
begirdle,
birle,
circle,
curdle,
diddle,
dindle,
engirdle,
fiddle,
firtle,
furdle,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E. gyrdel "belt, sash, cord about the waist," common Gmc. (cf. O.N. gyrðill, O.Fris. gerdel, Ger. gürtel "belt"), related to O.E. gyrdan "to gird" (see gird). Modern euphemistic sense of "elastic corset" first recorded 1925.
2. From Middle English girdel, gerdel, gurdel, from Old English gyrdel, from Proto-West Germanic *gurdil, from Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz (“girdle, belt”), equivalent to gird + -le.
3. Cognates
4. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäddel (“belt”), West Frisian gurdle, gurle, gurl (“belt”), Dutch gordel (“belt”), German Gürtel (“belt”), Yiddish גאַרטל (gartl, “belt”) (whence gartel, a doublet of girdle), Swedish gördel (“girdle”), Icelandic gyrðill (“girdle”).
Sample Sentences
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The Equator, as everyone knows, is an imaginary line or circle girdling the Earth half-way between the North and South poles. [1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning, page 36:]
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The ordinary large reddish "hen hawks," which circle high above meadows, are doing great good to the farmer by feeding upon the mice and other creatures which steal his grain and girdle his trees. [1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, page 108:]