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circumscribe

verb as in mark off, delimit

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Example Sentences

So when the pandemic hit, he felt determined to do more than just ensure the survival of his restaurant — he wanted to embed more deeply in the neighborhood, albeit from within the tightly circumscribed framework of fine dining.

From Eater

This kind of effect on memory is likely to be short term and circumscribed to the information the subjects saved onto the device.

There is the man, who scared the living hell out of me, but the rage was about growing up in a world circumscribed by the reality of race.

From Ozy

For travelers like me circumscribed by the pandemic, aromas offer the chance to revisit cherished journeys.

Such is the unbearable situation created in a culture quick to judge, to expel and especially to circumscribe the lives of women.

Their opponents accepted the issue, and resolved to circumscribe the duke's inordinate powers.

It is my wish to state it with precision and circumscribe its limits here at the very start.

A new spirit has now gone abroad which no walls can bound or circumscribe.

This finally came to be so urgent that it even involved an effort to circumscribe the futile activities.

Of a simple and solid edifice, it is not easy, however, to circumscribe the duration.

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On this page you'll find 68 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to circumscribe, such as: delineate, hem/hem in, bar, bound, confine, and define.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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