cir
cum
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gate
Third Person
circumnavigates
Present Participle
circumnavigating
Past Tense
circumnavigated
Past Participle
circumnavigated
1
to travel all the way around something, especially the globe, by sea, air, or land
transitive
- He plans to circumnavigate the globe in a sailboat.
- The explorers circumnavigated the island in just two weeks.
- She dreams of being the first woman to circumnavigate the Arctic.
- The ship successfully circumnavigated the treacherous waters.
- They were able to circumnavigate the continent in record time.
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