delineate
verb (used with object)
to trace the outline of; sketch or trace in outline; represent pictorially.
have delineated
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present perfectof delineate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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He said archaeologists had also found remnants of a brick wall that may have delineated the church property.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2021
Strzok did not elaborate on whether prosecutors made any effort to secure a search warrant, which could have delineated precisely what agents could and could not search.
From Fox News ● Mar. 14, 2019
THEODORUS: And you will have three times as much reason to thank me when they have delineated the Statesman and Philosopher, as well as the Sophist.
From Statesman by Plato
But in all his idiosyncrasy, he is the Ernest Linwood of Grandison Place, just such as I have delineated him, just such as I knew and loved.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
I have delineated only the rays issuing from two points of an object, and distinguished the two pencils in fig.
From Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Thomas P. Jones
