Usually means: Avoid or bypass an obstacle.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word circumvent:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. circumvent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. circumvent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. circumvent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. circumvent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. circumvent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Circumvent, circumvent: Wordnik
  7. circumvent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. circumvent: Wiktionary
  9. circumvent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. circumvent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. circumvent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Circumvent, circumvent: Dictionary.com
  13. circumvent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. circumvent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Circumvent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Circumvent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. circumvent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. circumvent: Rhymezone
  19. circumvent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. circumvent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. circumvent: Free Dictionary
  22. circumvent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. circumvent: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. circumvent: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circumvent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circumvent: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circumvent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) to avoid or get around something; to bypass
▸ verb:  (transitive) to surround or besiege
▸ verb:  (transitive) to outwit or outsmart

Similar:
evade, outwit, dodge, elude, besiege, outfox, outsmart, parry, put off, beleaguer, more...

Opposite:
facilitate

Types:
detour, bypass, go around, go through, go over, go under, more...

Phrases:
to circumvent, more...


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Similar:
evade, outwit, dodge, elude, besiege, outfox, outsmart, parry, put off, beleaguer, more...

Opposite:
facilitate

Types:
detour, bypass, go around, go through, go over, go under, more...

Phrases:
to circumvent, more...



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