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circumscribe
[sur-kuhm-skrahyb, sur-kuhm-skrahyb]
verb (used with object)
to draw a line around; encircle.
to circumscribe a city on a map.
to enclose within bounds; limit or confine, especially narrowly.
Her social activities are circumscribed by school regulations.
Synonyms: , , , ,to mark off; define; delimit.
to circumscribe the area of a science.
Geometry.
to draw (a figure) around another figure so as to touch as many points as possible.
(of a figure) to enclose (another figure) in this manner.
circumscribe
/ ˌsɜːkəmˈskraɪb, ˈsɜːkəmˌskraɪb /
verb
to restrict within limits
to mark or set the bounds of
to draw a geometric construction around (another construction) so that the two are in contact but do not intersect Compare inscribe
to draw a line round
circumscribe
To draw a figure around another figure so as to touch as many points as possible. A circle that is circumscribed around a triangle touches it at each of the triangle's three vertices.
Other Word Forms
- circumscribable adjective
- circumscriber noun
- noncircumscribed adjective
- uncircumscribable adjective
- uncircumscribed adjective
- ˌܳˈ noun
- ˌܳˈ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of circumscribe1
Word History and Origins
Origin of circumscribe1
Example Sentences
Yet this project’s geography is circumscribed, its borders hedged.
As per the country's own observations, the fund had limited ability to do something about the loan, and was "circumscribed by procedural and technical formalities".
Theo is born at an inopportune time for Jews, whose rights are increasingly circumscribed in the country.
In a place long circumscribed by disaster, Bass is facing a catastrophe with financial and logistical burdens that will likely dwarf the combined fallout from the 1994 Northridge earthquake and the 1992 civil unrest.
Project 2025, the conservative playbook organized by the Heritage Foundation, calls for the EPA’s structure and mission to be “greatly circumscribed.”
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