| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | turn; encircle |
| Synonyms: | begird, bypass, circle, circulate, circumnavigate, compass, encompass, flank, gird, girdle, go around, gyrate, hem, pivot, revolve, ring, roll, rotate, skirt, spin, surround, wheel, whirl |
| Main Entry: | steel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prepare oneself |
| Synonyms: | animate, brace, buck up, cheer, embolden, encourage, fortify, gird, grit teeth, harden, hearten, inspirit, make up one's mind, prepare, rally, ready, reinforce, strengthen |
| Notes: | ferrum is the Latin name for iron, from which its chemical symbol Fe is derived; iron exists in various states of impurity and it is processed to produce cast iron, wrought iron, etc. and steel (steel is iron to which carbon and other things have been added) |
| Antonyms: | fail, weaken |
| Main Entry: | strengthen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | encourage, hearten |
| Synonyms: | animate, back, back up, bear out, bloom, brace, brace up, burgeon, carry weight, cheer, consolidate, embolden, enhearten, enliven, flourish, flower, fortify, gather resources, gird, give weight, harden, inspirit, invigorate, nerve, nourish, prepare, prosper, rally, ready, refresh, rejuvenate, restore, steel, substantiate, temper, thrive, toughen, uphold |
| Antonyms: | discourage, dishearten, dissuade, weaken |
| Main Entry: | surround |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enclose, encircle something |
| Synonyms: | beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, border, bound, box in, circle, circumscribe, circumvent, close around, close in, close in on, compass, confine, edge, enclave, encompass, envelop, environ, fence in, fringe, gird, girdle, go around, hem in, inundate, invest, lay siege to, limit, loop, margin, outline, rim, ring, round, shut in, skirt, verge |
| Antonyms: | free, let go, release |
| Main Entry: | tie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | connect, interlace |
| Synonyms: | anchor, attach, band, bind, cinch, clinch, do up, fasten, gird, join, knot, lash, link, make a bow, make a hitch, make a knot, make fast, marry, moor, rivet, rope, secure, splice, tether, tie up, tighten, truss, unite, wed |
| Antonyms: | detach, disconnect, loose, loosen, unfasten, unlace, untie |
| Main Entry: | begird |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | surround |
| Synonyms: | band, belt, beset, bind, circle, encircle, enclose, encompass, engirdle, envelop, environ, gird, girdle, hem, hem in, ring |
| Main Entry: | engird |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | encircle |
| Synonyms: | band, begird, belt, cincture, circle, compass, encompass, engirdle, gird, girdle, ring, surround |
| Main Entry: | engirdle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | encircle |
| Synonyms: | band, begird, belt, cincture, circle, compass, encompass, engird, gird, girdle, ring, surround |
| Main Entry: | indurate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | harden |
| Synonyms: | acclimate, acclimatize, amalgamate, anneal, bake, brace, buttress, cake, calcify, callous, caseharden, cement, close, clot, coagulate, compact, concrete, congeal, consolidate, contract, crystallize, curdle, densify, dry, firm, fix*, fortify, fossilize, freeze, gird, jell, nerve, ossify, petrify, precipitate, press, reinforce, season, set, settle, solidify, starch, steel, stiffen, strengthen, temper, thicken, toughen, vitrify |