gird up his loins and prepare himself for all exigencies. Synonyms: brace oneself, eat one's Wheaties, roll up one's sleeves, shape up, steel oneself...
girdle gird one's loins, gird up one's loins girt to bind with a flexible rope or cord to encircle with, or as if with a belt to prepare oneself From Middle...
from Proto-Germanic *gerdaną. 𐌿𐍆𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌳𐌰𐌽 • (ufgairdan) (hapax) to gird oneself Synonym: 𐌱𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌳𐌰𐌽 (bigairdan) 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌳𐌰 (gairda)...
also kuşanmak (“gird oneself, get dressed”) and kuşak (“cummerbund”). kuşatmak (third-person singular simple present kuşatır) to gird, to engirdle to...
(yatamanṭaqu), verbal noun تَمَنْطُق (tamanṭuq)) to gird, to swathe or swaddle, to wrap around one's body, to gird oneself; construed with بِ (bi) to study logic,...
to gird; especially to gird round the loins in wrestling (mediopassive) to gird oneself, especially of athletes (with dative or accusative) to gird oneself...
опа̀сати pf (Latin spelling opàsati) (transitive) to encircle, surround, gird (reflexive) to put a belt on oneself Conjugation of опасати опаси́вати impf...
opàsati pf (Cyrillic spelling опа̀сати) (transitive) to encircle, surround, gird (reflexive) to put a belt on oneself Conjugation of opasati opasívati impf...
opasívati impf (Cyrillic spelling опаси́вати) (transitive) to encircle, surround, gird (reflexive) to put a belt on oneself Conjugation of opasivati opàsati pf...
опаси́вати impf (Latin spelling opasívati) (transitive) to encircle, surround, gird (reflexive) to put a belt on oneself Conjugation of опасивати опа̀сати pf...