DEMARCATED Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

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verb

past tense of demarcate

as in defined

to mark the limits of a bright yellow line demarcated the county on the road map

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In a very short time, the story is clearly demarcated, allowing Şerban to focus on character. — Jay Weissberg, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026 The graves are arranged on terraces identified with letters and demarcated with white stones to distinguish them from the rest of the cemetery. — Osmary Hernández, CNN Money, 7 July 2026 The land was only officially demarcated as Indigenous territory in 2005. — ABC News, 19 June 2026 The line there was visible, demarcated by a wide dirt path and small yellow markings. — Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026 Instead, Yoo provides pearls of thoughtful surrealist images on a long string, a new sentence only demarcated by a capital letter. — Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 14 May 2026 Voyager 1 is nestled in the space demarcated by that stellar pyramid. — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 19 Jan. 2026 Carolina Panthers opponents in 2026 Divisional opponents are demarcated with an asterisk. — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 6 Jan. 2026 The two countries have long disagreed on stretches of their 500-mile border that had been demarcated under French colonial rule, especially around the Preah Vihear and Ta Muen Thom temples, and have clashed several times over the years, including between 2008 and 2011. — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 9 Dec. 2025

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Roughly the size of a large dog and weighing more than 110 pounds (50 kilograms), the quadruped robot is designed to navigate industrial facilities that include staircases, narrow walkways, uneven surfaces, and confined spaces.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 22 June 2026
Sewers can contain numerous hazards, including noxious and potentially deadly gases, unstable surfaces, flooding risks, and confined spaces.

— Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2026

Definition of confined

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And increasingly, the biggest EV factory may no longer be defined simply by the number of cars rolling off a single assembly line, but by the size of the entire industrial ecosystem built around them.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Aug. 2026
After all those years, the curse had finally been broken, and a franchise once defined by failure suddenly became one of baseball’s great modern success stories.

— Emile Nuh, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of defined

Adjective

The authors of the study estimated that their circumscribed findings extrapolated countywide could represent up to $114 million in losses over a month of sustained enforcement.

— Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2026
Signs will redirect cyclists around the circumscribed area, requiring them in some cases to take winding alternative routes.

— Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2026

Definition of circumscribed

Adjective

The products are one-megawatt-hour bounded futures and binary options, listed across the next 120 delivery hours, launched under a direct-access, fully collateralized model.

— Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
For Cusk, freedom involves wriggling out of the social and historical integuments that enclose a person into a bounded self.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026

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