circumscribe, v.
(circumscribed, circumscribes, circumscribing)
freq. cnt. 2
(circumscribed, circumscribes, circumscribing)
freq. cnt. 2
restrict or confine within limits
<verb.change> freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 1
circumscribe confine to limit
sample sentences
"I limit you to two visits to the pub a day""please confine your questions to the topic"
"our actions are circumscribed by our biology, personality, and by the social and cultural context into which we are born"
verb frames
Somebody ----s somethingSomething ----s something
verb frames
Somebody ----s somethingSomething ----s something
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
hypernym
hyponym
draw a line around
<verb.contact> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
circumscribe
sample sentences
"He drew a circle around the points"verb frames
Somebody ----s something
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect
<verb.contact>
circumscribe
verb frames
Somebody ----s something
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
domain of synset (topic)
hypernym
verb group