Circumscribe
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈsɜː.kəm.skɹaɪb/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Circumscribe is a verb meaning To draw a line around; to encircle.
Meaning
To draw a line around; to encircle.
More Meanings
- To limit narrowly; to restrict.
- (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
Example Sentences
"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."
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; […].
Word Forms
- circumscribes
- circumscribing
- circumscribed
Synonyms for circumscribe
Depending on context, synonyms include limit, confine.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include confine, limit, contain, restrict, curtail, restrain.
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