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
While his writings educated his own generation, they have delineated it for all posterity after him.
From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman
"You have delineated my life," one man said.
From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
Eminent biographers and critics, including Carlyle, have delineated him, but her portrait—drawn twenty years before theirs appeared—Professor Masson assured me her character of Brougham was the most perfect of all.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake
