Skip to content
GREMockTests
GRE vocabulary

delimit

verbCommon GRE wordMore D words

to fix or mark the limits or boundaries of something

Start a free GRE mock test 39 minutes · free · instant score
In a sentence

Delimit in a sentence

Here is an example sentence showing delimit in a sentence.

The treaty was meant to delimit the territories claimed by both nations.

Synonyms
demarcatedefinecircumscribebound
Antonyms
expandblurobscure

Quick GRE check

Question 1 of 3

3 questions, about 2 minutes. How would you do on the real test?

Verbal · Sentence Equivalence

Once a blank supporter of the policy, the governor now denounces it at every opportunity, embarrassed that she ever endorsed it.

Select the two answers that give the sentence the same meaning. 0 of 2 selected.

Common questions

Questions about “delimit”

Delimit (verb) means to fix or mark the limits or boundaries of something
Here is delimit used in an example sentence: "The treaty was meant to delimit the territories claimed by both nations."
Common synonyms for delimit include demarcate, define, circumscribe, bound.
Antonyms of delimit include expand, blur, obscure.
Delimit is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

See these words the way the GRE tests them.

Take the free 39-minute GRE Quick Mock Test and meet words like this inside real Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence questions, with a worked solution for every answer.