circumscribing



definition, delimitation, demarcation, determination, specification ,









   department - airspace, ambit, area, arena, bailiwick, beat, belt, border, borderland, branch, bureau, circle, circuit, commissariat, concern,

   straight course - airline, axis, beeline, chord, continuation, continuity, diagonal, diameter, direct line, edge, endurance, extension, lengthening, maintenance, normal,

   drop a hint - adumbrate, allude to, glance at, hint, imply, indicate, insinuate, intimate, prompt, suggest ,

   remand - assign, bring back, commend, commit, commit to prison, commitment, committal, confide, consign, consignment, delegate, entrust, extradite, extradition, give back,

   inshore - inland, interior, inward, inwardly, midland ,

   drain of resources - ablate, absorb, assimilate, bleed white, burn up, consume, deplete, digest, drain, eat, eat up, erode, exhaust, expend, finish,

   goggler - bystander, eyewitness, looker, observer, onlooker, passer-by, seer, viewer, watcher, witness ,

   self-reproaching - ashamed, regretful, remorseful, rueful, shamefaced, shameful, sorry, unhappy about, wistful ,

   unopposed - agreeing, at one, at one with, carried by acclamation, concordant, concurrent, in agreement, like-minded, of a piece, of one accord, of one mind, solid, unanimous, unchallenged, uncontested,

   mother - SOB, agent, ancestors, ancestral, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, attend to, aunt, auntie, author, baby, baby-sit, bastard,