circumscribe
verbVerb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they circumscribe | |
he / she / it circumscribes | |
past simple circumscribed | |
past participle circumscribed | |
-ing form circumscribing |
- [often passive] (formal)
to limit somebody/something’s freedom, rights, power, etc. synonym restrict限制,约束(自由、权利、权力等) - circumscribe something (specialist)
to draw a circle around another shape 画…的外接圆
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin circumscribere, from circum ‘around’ + scribere ‘write’.