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define someone/something by something
collocation
often disapproving
to believe that a particular quality or fact is enough to tell you what a person or thing is like, especially when this is not fair or true :
She refused to be defined by her difficult upbringing.
You can't define people by the type of music they listen to.
His whole life was defined by football - playing it, watching it, and writing about it.
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define
I'd hate to feel that I was defined by my job.
Young people today do not define others by their gender identities.
We are all to some extent defined by where we grew up.
The landscape is defined by soaring peaks and deep valleys.
In phonological terms, a vowel is defined by its function in the structure of a syllable.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Defining & explaining
account (to someone) for something
accountability
adumbrate
adumbration
annotation
annotator
belabour
demythologize
disabuse
extenuate
indescribably
inexpressibly
justificatory
lay something out
limn
outline
sketch
spell
trace
what is he, are they, etc. like?idiom
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