limn

🇺🇸 /lɪm/ 🇬🇧 /lɪm/
Frequency
Difficulty
Tags RARE
verb
R

To paint or draw something carefully.

The artist limned the landscape with great care.

R

To draw the shape of something.

The cartographer limned the coastline on the map.

translation

v. To paint or draw something carefully.; To draw the shape of something.

Word Forms

3rd Present limns
Progressive limning
Perfect limned
Past limned