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
In that book he had delineated the bitter contest between Paul and the Judaising element in the Apostolic Church which opposed Paul whithersoever he went.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore
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
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
Looking round him he beheld a signboard on which the painter's art had delineated something remotely resembling a cerulean elephant with an aquiline nose in lieu of a trunk.
From The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick"; with Some Observations on Their Other Associations, by Bertram Waldrom Matz
