Usually means: Draw boundary around; limit scope.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word circumscribe:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. circumscribe: Merriam-Webster
  2. circumscribe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. circumscribe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. circumscribe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. circumscribe: Vocabulary.com
  6. circumscribe: Wordnik
  7. circumscribe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. circumscribe: Wiktionary
  9. circumscribe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. circumscribe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. circumscribe: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. circumscribe: Dictionary.com
  13. circumscribe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Circumscribe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Circumscribe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. circumscribe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. circumscribe: Rhymezone
  18. Circumscribe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. circumscribe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. circumscribe: FreeDictionary.org
  21. circumscribe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. circumscribe: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. circumscribe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circumscribe: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circumscribe: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circumscribe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circumscribe: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circumscribe: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Circumscribe: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  To draw a line around; to encircle.
verb:  To limit narrowly; to restrict.
verb:  (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.

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