Usually means: Encircled tightly, often restricting growth.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word girdled:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. girdled: Merriam-Webster
  2. girdled: Collins English Dictionary
  3. girdled: Vocabulary.com
  4. Girdled, girdled: Wordnik
  5. girdled: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. girdled: Wiktionary
  7. Girdled, girdled: Dictionary.com
  8. Girdled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Girdled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. girdled: FreeDictionary.org
  11. girdled: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. girdled: Legal dictionary

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  1. girdled: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. girdled: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (girdle)

noun:  That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
noun:  A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
noun:  A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
noun:  The zodiac; also, the equator.
noun:  The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
noun:  (mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
noun:  The clitellum of an earthworm.
noun:  The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
verb:  (transitive) To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
verb:  (transitive) To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
noun:  (Scotland, Northern English) Alternative form of griddle [A stone or metal flat plate or surface on which food is fried or baked.]
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