MEANING
To mark or establish boundaries separating areas, groups, or concepts.
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Words that belong together
- demarcate a boundary
- clearly demarcated
- demarcate responsibilities
On the page
Stone posts demarcate the edge of the reserve.
The protocol demarcates each team’s responsibilities.
The chapter carefully demarcates correlation from causation.
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Word forms
- Base
- demarcate
- Past tense
- demarcated
- Past participle
- demarcated
- Present participle
- demarcating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- demarcate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are demarcating
- Present perfect
- have/has demarcated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been demarcating
- Past
- demarcated
- Past continuous
- was/were demarcating
- Past perfect
- had demarcated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been demarcating
- Future
- will demarcate
- Future continuous
- will be demarcating
- Future perfect
- will have demarcated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been demarcating
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Usage notes
Primary category: academic. Forms: demarcate; demarcates; demarcated; demarcated; demarcating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: demarcates.
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