• v.
    ⦿prepare oneself for a military confrontation
    lexical concept
  • The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East
  • troops are building up on the Iraqi border

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:arm
  2. enl:build up
  3. enl:fortify
  4. enl:gird
wn:interlingual indexili:i27029

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • armgird
  • armbuild upfortifygird