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1. Determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey
   "Our sense of sight enables us to situate objects in space"
   - locate
    
2. Put (something somewhere) firmly
   "situate your eyes on this spot"
   - fix, posit, deposit

Derived forms: situates, situated, situating

See also: situation

Type of: ascertain, determine, find, find out, lay, place, pose, position, put, set