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CIRCUMVALLATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they circumvallate ... he / she / it circumvallates
Past simple: circumvallated
Past participle: circumvallated
-ing form: circumvallating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "circumvallate" is one way to...):
fence; fence in; palisade; surround; wall (surround with a wall in order to fortify)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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