circumscribed

Meaning of circumscribed

verb, past tense
  1. restrict (something) within limits.
    the minister's powers are circumscribed both by tradition and the organization of local government
  2. draw (a figure) round another, touching it at points but not cutting it.
    if a hexagon is circumscribed about a circle the lines joining opposite vertices meet in one point

late Middle English: from Latin circumscribere, from circum ‘around’ + scribere ‘write’.

Information about circumscribed

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of circumscribed

cir-cum-scribed

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 13 chars.
  • circumscribed is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

circumscribed synonyms

Meaning limited:

limited

Meaning delimited:

delimited

Meaning put a limit on; keep under control:

restrict

Meaning set or serve as a limit to:

limit

Meaning determine the limits or boundaries of:

delimit

Meaning restrain or keep in check:

curb

Meaning keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits of (space, scope, or time):

confine

Meaning walk or run with leaping strides:

bound

Meaning prevent (someone or something) from doing something; keep under control or within limits:

restrain

Meaning control or maintain the rate or speed of (a machine or process) so that it operates properly:

regulate

Meaning determine the behaviour or supervise the running of:

control

Words that rhyme with circumscribed

imbibed, overimbibed, preimbibed, unimbibed, gibed, jibed, ascribed, bribed, caribed, conscribed, described, escribed, inscribed, interscribed, misdescribed, misscribed, mistranscribed, noncircumscribed, nonprescribed, outbribed, overdescribed, overprescribed, oversubscribed, predescribed, preinscribed, prescribed, presubscribed, pretranscribed, proscribed, redescribed, reinscribed, represcribed, resubscribed, retranscribed, scribed, subscribed, superinscribed, superinsscribed, superscribed, transcribed, unascribed, unbribed, uncircumscribed, undersubscribed, undescribed, uninscribed, unprescribed, unproscribed, unscribed, unsubscribed

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