delineate
verb (used with object)
to trace the outline of; sketch or trace in outline; represent pictorially.
had delineated
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past perfectof delineate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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It wasn’t visible to her, but the guards had delineated an area within which the prisoners’ relatives were not allowed.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
My friend had delineated them as missals, with a strangely beautiful design to each.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod
That philosopher, as is well known, after writing on government in general, drew up a body of laws adapted to that particular form of it which he had delineated.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by John Dunlop
At that time we had a little laugh at my expense respecting the beauty of that map of mine, and the accuracy with which I had delineated the route.
From Forty-Six Years in the Army by John M. Schofield
Looking round him, he there beheld a signboard on which the painter's art had delineated something remotely resembling a cerulean elephant with an aquiline nose in lieu of trunk.
From The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
