curtail vs circumscribe

curtail and circumscribe both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
curtail	No	No	Yes	No
circumscribe	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, circumscribe is a hypernym of curtail; that is, circumscribe is a word with a broader meaning than curtail:

Other hypernyms of curtail include confine to, limit.

curtail (verb)	circumscribe (verb)
place restrictions on	restrict or confine within limits
terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent	draw a line around
	to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect