- Circumvent verb
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Find a way around (an obstacle).
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Overcome (a problem or difficulty), typically in a clever and surreptitious way: terrorists found the airport checks easy to circumvent.
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archaic deceive; outwit: he’s circumvented her with some of his stories.
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This word came out during the only five minutes of Arrested Development that I have watched and I thought it would be a good one to share with the world. I then proceeded to share that word with my Thursday night soccer crew, and circumvented the opposing defense a whopping four times to put the ball in the net. Yet despite this our team lost 7-5.
