mark out

1. 1.

   set boundaries to and delimit

   “mark out the territory”

   Synonymsmark off

   Broaderrestrict

Questions about mark out

What does mark out mean?

mark out means "set boundaries to and delimit".

What is another word for mark out?

Close synonyms include mark off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mark out a common word?

mark out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.