Definition of circumvents Circumvents
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What does circumvents mean?
Part of speech
🔤- circumvents, verb, present, 3rd person singular of circumvent (infinitive).
WordNet
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| circumvent - avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully" | ||
| hedge, fudge, evade, put off, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep | ||
| avoid stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her" | ||
| beg call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!" | ||
| quibble argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies" | ||
| circumvent - surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna" | ||
| besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in | ||
| assail, attack attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" | ||
| seal off, blockade impose a blockade on | ||
| ebb fall away or decline; "The patient's strength ebbed away" | ||
| circumvent - beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" | ||
| outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat | ||
| vanquish, beat out, trounce, crush, shell, beat beat out a rhythm | ||
| outgo, outmatch, outperform, outdo, outstrip, exceed, surmount, surpass get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- circumvent (v. t.)
To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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circumvent
To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender. -
circumvent
To avoid an obstacle by going around it.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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circumvent
sėr-kum-vent′, v.t. to come round or outwit a person: to deceive or cheat.—n. Circumven′tion.—adj. Circumvent′ive, deceiving by artifices. [L. venīre, to come.]
Part of speech
🔤- circumvent, verb, present, 1st person singular of circumvent (infinitive).
- circumvent, verb (infinitive).
