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DEMARCATE

Dictionary entry overview: What does demarcate mean?

• DEMARCATE (verb)
The verb DEMARCATE has 2 senses:

1. separate clearly and as if by boundaries
2. set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something

Familiarity information: DEMARCATE used as a verb is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DEMARCATE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Separate clearly and as if by boundaries

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "demarcate" is one way to...):

differentiate; distinguish; secern; secernate; separate; severalise; severalize; tell; tell apart (mark as different)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

delimitate; demarcate; delimit

Hypernyms (to "demarcate" is one way to...):

circumscribe; confine; limit (restrict or confine,)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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