circumscribe

About 0.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

confine limit contain restrict curtail restrain frame narrow delimit demarcate

Often followed by

the a their and it its his our this

Word family

circumscribed circumscribes circumscribing