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verb
- 1. find a way around (an obstacle): "if you come to an obstruction in a road you can seek to circumvent it"
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The meaning of CIRCUMVENT is to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem. How to use circumvent in a sentence. The Circular History of Circumvent
CIRCUMVENT definition: 1. to avoid something, especially cleverly or illegally: 2. to avoid something, especially…. Learn more.
to avoid (defeat, failure, unpleasantness, etc.) by artfulness or deception; avoid by anticipating or outwitting: He circumvented capture by anticipating their movements. Synonyms: outwit, evade, elude, escape. to surround or encompass, as by stratagem; entrap: to circumvent a body of enemy troops. Synonyms: ensnare, encircle. circumvent.
CIRCUMVENT meaning: 1. to avoid something, especially cleverly or illegally: 2. to avoid something, especially…. Learn more.
If you circumvent someone, you cleverly prevent them from achieving something, especially when they are trying to harm you.
To circumvent is to avoid. Someone who trains elephants but somehow gets out of picking up after them has found a way to circumvent the cleaning of the circus tent.
1. To surround (an enemy, for example); enclose or entrap. 2. To go around; bypass: circumvented the city. 3. To avoid or get around by artful maneuvering: circumvented the bureaucratic red tape. [Middle English circumventen, from Latin circumvenīre, circumvent- : circum-, circum- + venīre, to go, come; see g w ā- in Indo-European roots .]
