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Verb circumscribe has 3 senses
  1. circumscribe - draw a line around; "He drew a circle around the points"
    --1 is one way to     trace, draw, line, describe, delineate
    Derived form: noun circumscription1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. limit, circumscribe, confine - restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
    --2 is one way to decrease, lessen, minify
    Derived form: noun circumscription1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  3. circumscribe - to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect
    --3 is one way to     trace, draw, line, describe, delineate
    Derived form: noun circumscription1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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