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CIRCUMNAVIGATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they circumnavigate ... he / she / it circumnavigates
Past simple: circumnavigated
Past participle: circumnavigated
-ing form: circumnavigating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Travel around, either by plane or ship
Example:
We compassed the earth
Synonyms:
circumnavigate; compass
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
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))
