- present participle of girdle.
girdling
Example Sentences
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It takes precision to harness so much abundance; raising the house to save the sibipiruna, for instance, meant inserting tiers in the terrain to avoid girdling the roots of pre-existing loquats and phoenix palms.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
Small gaps were created by felling or girdling any competing tree that overlapped the hemlock's outermost branches, or dripline.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2023
Crews have employed a number of tactics, including felling trees with chain saws, girdling their trunks with a blade and spraying the wound with a systemic herbicide.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2018
They also squandered timber by girdling trees to clear land, cutting the bark around their trunks and later burning them.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
A huge wave girdling it was advancing towards us relentlessly.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
