Begirt

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To surround or enclose
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To encompass; to begird.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To begird; encompass.
  • Word Usage
    ""That city shall be begirt" (he told me he did not know what the word begirt meant then) "by a foreign nation, that will come and pitch their camp in the Hay wood, and they shall batter such gate," which they did, (I have forgot the name of it) "and shall go away and not take it.""
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    encompass    begird   
    Verb Stem
    begird   
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