circumnavigate
verb🔊/ˌsɜːkəmˈnævɪɡeɪt/
🔊/ˌsɜːrkəmˈnævɪɡeɪt/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they circumnavigate | 🔊/ˌsɜːkəmˈnævɪɡeɪt/ 🔊/ˌsɜːrkəmˈnævɪɡeɪt/ |
| he / she / it circumnavigates | 🔊/ˌsɜːkəmˈnævɪɡeɪts/ 🔊/ˌsɜːrkəmˈnævɪɡeɪts/ |
| past simple circumnavigated | 🔊/ˌsɜːkəmˈnævɪɡeɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˌsɜːrkəmˈnævɪɡeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle circumnavigated | 🔊/ˌsɜːkəmˈnævɪɡeɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˌsɜːrkəmˈnævɪɡeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form circumnavigating | 🔊/ˌsɜːkəmˈnævɪɡeɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ˌsɜːrkəmˈnævɪɡeɪtɪŋ/ |
- circumnavigate something
to sail all the way around something, especially all the way around the world 环绕…航行；（尤指）环绕地球航行 Oxford Collocations DictionaryCircumnavigate is used with these nouns as the object:- globe