Verb

(circumscrib)

To draw a line around; to encircle.

To limit narrowly; to restrict.

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(geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.

Verb

(en verb)

To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.

To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust: as, to adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture.

To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form.

To change oneself so as to be adapted.

They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.