Word Meanings - ENGIRD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To gird; to encompass. Shak.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENGIRD)
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ENGIRD)
- Expand
- disband
- unfold
- amplify
- display
- dismiss
- liberate
- discard
- fail
- bungle
- botch
- misconceive
- mismanage
- misconstrue
Related words: (words related to ENGIRD)
- DISMISSIVE
Giving dismission. - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - DISMISSAL
Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley. - MISMANAGER
One who manages ill. - EXPAND
To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden. - BOTCH
1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling - UNFOLDER
One who, or that which, unfolds. - BUNGLER
A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow. - BOTCHERY
A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship. - DISPLAYER
One who, or that which, displays. - DISMISS
1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden. - ENGIRDLE
To surround as with a girdle; to girdle. - ENCOMPASSMENT
The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention. By this encompassment and drift of question. Shak. - UNFOLDMENT
The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded. The extreme unfoldment of the instinctive powers. C. Morris. - CIRCUMSCRIBE
To draw a line around si as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5. Syn. -- To bound; limit; restrict; confine; abridge; restrain; environ; encircle; inclose; encompass. (more info) 1. to write or engare around. Thereon is - MISCONSTRUER
One who misconstrues. - ENVIRONS
The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield. - COMPASSABLE
Capable of being compassed or accomplished. Burke. - UNFOLD
1. To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth. Unfold thy forehead gathered into frowns. Herbert. 2. To open, as anything covered or close; to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or - BUNGLE
A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder. Those errors and bungles which are committed. Cudworth. - INCOMPASSIONATE
Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n. - DELIBERATELY
With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed. - DELIBERATE
1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. "These deliberate fools."