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English Dictionary: circumnavigate by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
circumnavigate
v
  1. travel around, either by plane or ship; "We compassed the earth"
    Synonym(s): circumnavigate, compass
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Circumnavigate \Cir`cum*nav"i*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
      {Circumnavigated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Circumnavigating}.] [L.
      circumnavigatus, p. p. of circumnavigare to sail round;
      circum + navigare to navigate.]
      To sail completely round.
  
               Having circumnavigated the whole earth.   --T. Fuller.
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