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Circumscribe

//ˈsɝ.kəm.skɹaɪb// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To draw a line around; to encircle.
  2. 2
    restrict or confine within limits wordnet
  3. 3
    To limit narrowly; to restrict.

    ""Well, I promise you to circumscribe her conquests as much as possible by extending my own," returned Henrietta. "It will be an easy task; for Miss Churchill does not do 'the honours of her eyes.' I often tell her her beauty is quite wasted upon her.""

  4. 4
    draw a line around wordnet
  5. 5
    To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
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  1. 6
    to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect wordnet

Etymology

From Latin circumscrībō, from circum (“around”) + scrībō (“write”). By surface analysis, circum- + scribe.

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