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girdled

adjective as in enclosed

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Weak match

adjective as in framed

adjective as in outlined

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Each of these minarets was girdled, halfway up, by a narrow balcony.

A brush-field girdled by a fence was passed, then a meadow, all golden in the sun.

In this method, trees are girdled with an ax and thereby weakened to such a degree that beetles are attracted to it.

He knows then that this tree was girdled by bark beetles very recently, probably during the previous summer.

It sank in Rhoda like the preaching of an end that was promise of a beginning, and girdled a distancing land of trouble.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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