When one does that you always end up with circular definitions.

Dictionaries are sometimes used erroneously as sources for examples of circular definition.

Narrowly circular definitions simply define one word in terms of another.

A broadly circular definition has a larger circle of words.

Then you end up with a lot of examples, but a circular definition.

This would be a circular definition, a circulus in definiendo.

The other four need further, and careful, definition to avoid ending up in hopelessly circular definitions.

Not everyone will agree with me, but I do not see any other "out" to obscure circular definitions.

This is known as a circular definition.