Circumscribe

//ˈsɝ.kəm.skɹaɪb//

Synonyms for "circumscribe" (97 found)

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Strong matches (29)

Verb(1 words)
confine to

Related words (48)

Verb(2 words)
includelimit

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Related terms

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derived

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derived from

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has context

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manner of

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related to

9 entries

Translations

61 translations across 18 languages.

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Bulgarian

4 entries
  • ограничавам verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)
  • окръжавам verb (to draw a line around; encircle)
  • описвам verb (to draw a circle, sphere, or higher-dimensional ball)
  • очертавам verb (to draw a line around; encircle)

Catalan

3 entries
  • circumscriure verb (to draw a line around; encircle)
  • circumscriure verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)
  • circumscriure verb (to draw a circle, sphere, or higher-dimensional ball)

Czech

4 entries
  • obkroužit verb (to draw a line around; encircle)
  • obmalovat verb (to draw a line around; encircle)
  • ohraničit verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)
  • omezit verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)

Danish

1 entries
  • omskrive verb (to draw a line around; encircle)

Dutch

3 entries
  • beperken verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)
  • limiteren verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)
  • omcirkelen verb (to draw a line around; encircle)

Estonian

3 entries
  • kitsendama verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)
  • piiritlema verb (to draw a circle, sphere, or higher-dimensional ball)
  • ümbritsema verb (to draw a line around; encircle)

Finnish

4 entries
  • piirtää ympyrä monikulmion kärkien kautta verb (to draw a circle, sphere, or higher-dimensional ball)
  • piirtää ympäri verb (to draw a circle, sphere, or higher-dimensional ball)
  • rajoittaa verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)
  • ympyröidä verb (to draw a line around; encircle)

French

3 entries
  • circonscrire verb (to draw a line around; encircle)
  • circonscrire verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)
  • circonscrire verb (to draw a circle, sphere, or higher-dimensional ball)

German

2 entries
  • eingrenzen verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)
  • einkreisen verb (to draw a line around; encircle)

Hebrew

2 entries
  • הגביל verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)
  • תחם verb (to draw a line around; encircle)

Ido

1 entries
  • cirkumskribar verb (to draw a line around; encircle)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • omskrive verb (to draw a line around; encircle)

Polish

4 entries
  • obwieść verb (to draw a line around; encircle)
  • obwodzić verb (to draw a line around; encircle)
  • ograniczać verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)
  • ograniczyć verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • circular verb (to draw a line around; encircle)
  • circunscrever verb (to draw a line around; encircle)
  • circunscrever verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)
  • circunscrever verb (to draw a circle, sphere, or higher-dimensional ball)

Romanian

1 entries
  • circumscrie verb (to draw a line around; encircle)

Russian

4 entries
  • ограни́чивать verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)
  • ограни́чить verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)
  • опи́сывать verb (to draw a line around; encircle)
  • опи́сывать verb (to draw a circle, sphere, or higher-dimensional ball)

Spanish

2 entries
  • circunscribir verb (to draw a line around; encircle)
  • circunscribir verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)

Swedish

4 entries
  • begränsa verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)
  • kringgärda verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)
  • kringskära verb (to limit narrowly; restrict)
  • omskriva verb (to draw a line around; encircle)

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

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"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."

Source: wiktionary

It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].

Source: wiktionary

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