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Verb: delimit  di'li-mit or dee'li-mit
  1. Set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something
    "The treaty delimited the new borders between the countries";
    - demarcate, delimitate, demark
     
  2. Determine the essential quality of
    "The treaty delimited the borders between the two countries";
    - specify, define, delineate, delimitate

Derived forms: delimits, delimiting, delimited

Type of: ascertain, bound, confine, determine, find, find out, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel

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