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CIRCUMNAVIGATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does circumnavigate mean?
• CIRCUMNAVIGATE (verb)
The verb CIRCUMNAVIGATE has 1 sense:
1. travel around, either by plane or ship
Familiarity information: CIRCUMNAVIGATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they circumnavigate ... he / she / it circumnavigates
Past simple: circumnavigated
Past participle: circumnavigated
-ing form: circumnavigating
... he / she / it circumnavigates Past simple: circumnavigated
Past participle: circumnavigated
-ing form: circumnavigating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Travel around, either by plane or ship
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
circumnavigate; compass
Context example:
We compassed the earth
Hypernyms (to "circumnavigate" is one way to...):
circle (travel around something)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
circumnavigation (traveling around something (by ship or plane))
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