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词汇 circumscribed
释义 circumscribed
past simple and past participle ofcircumscribe
circumscribe
verb
uk /ˈsɜː.kəm.skraɪb/ us /ˈsɝː.kəm.skraɪb/
[ Toften passive ]formal
to limit something: 控制;限制;抑制
Their movements have been severely circumscribed since the laws came into effect.自从这些法律生效以来,他们的活动受到了严格约束。
There followed a series of tightly circumscribed visits to military installations.随之而来的是对参观军事设施的一系列严格限制。
[ T ] mathematics specialized
If you circumscribe a triangle, square, etc., you draw a circle that surrounds it and touches each of its corners.画(三角形、正方形等)的外接圆
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Limiting and restricting
anti-libertarian
armlock
boundary
box someone out
box someone/something in
crippling
cripplingly
crowd
curb
curtail
keep (herself) to herselfidiom
keep something down
limit
limitation
limitative
stunt
suffocatingly
tempered
tie someone down
tie someone up

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Enclosing, surrounding and immersing

Examples of circumscribed


circumscribed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


A firm, well circumscribed nodule with a homogenous pale purple cut surface was found in the right adrenal gland.
It seems likely that just as the movement's localism constrained geographical expansion, so its rootedness in the culture of workplace association circumscribed its social appeal.
All we need is a minimally circumscribed concept that will help us explain the law in particular.
Fortunately, in the matter at hand - designated 'ad longum' parts - we are faced with a repertory that is relatively circumscribed in chronology and provenance.
The authors find the use of 'indigenous' not sufficiently circumscribed for legal discussions.
It was a model of what a thesis should be, a study circumscribed in time and space, which permitted the author to confront larger questions.
This area, therefore, being well circumscribed, is preeminently suitable for various lines of enquiry.
Additionally, they aren't ready to comprehend being circumscribed or restricted.
And this secrecy which ' ' circumscribed their lives ' ' (25) extended to their own political histories.
We divided each grid into contiguous 100-m2 areas circumscribed by the four trap stations at the corners.
Without the rights and liberties associated with democratic governance, the kinds of demands associated with more open forms of government are circumscribed.
These more narrowly circumscribed educational, developmental, and psycholinguistic determinants are subordinated to politicalideological impositions at the risk of undermining basic democratic principles.
Most works favour mid-range theorising, frequently policy oriented, on carefully circumscribed problems held in isolation from each other.
One-third were in fair health, which means that their daily routines were affected by ailments but their independence was insignificantly circumscribed.
Moreover, when children enter the equation, the freedoms of adults become circumscribed too.
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