Third person singular present tense of engirdle; wraps around or encircles.
From the same root as engirdled, with the -s ending for third person singular present tense in English grammar.
This word shows how English borrowed the 'en-' prefix from French to intensify verbs, creating words like 'enlarge' and 'enrich'—but most of these intense versions eventually died out, leaving us with just the base verbs.
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