Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb demarcate

2 senses of demarcate

Sense 1
demarcate -- (separate clearly, as if by boundaries)
       => distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart -- (mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple")

Sense 2
demarcate, delimit, delimitate -- (set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something)
       => limit, circumscribe, confine -- (restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day")

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