Verb
circumvent (third-person singular simple present circumvents, present participle circumventing, simple past and past participle circumvented)
- (transitive) to avoid or get around something; to bypass
1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:The line turns a sharp right-angle to the north to circumvent the town, and then plunges straight into the 1 in 50, which lasts for nearly 20 miles with few intermissions, and some pitches of 1 in 40.
- (transitive) to surround or besiege
- (transitive) to outwit or outsmart
Translations
to avoid or get around something
- Bulgarian: заобика́лям (bg) impf (zaobikáljam), заобиколя́ pf (zaobikoljá)
- Catalan: evitar (ca), circumvalar
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 規避/规避 (zh) (guībì)
- Danish: omgå
- Dutch: omzeilen (nl)
- French: contourner (fr)
- Georgian: გვერდის ავლა (gverdis avla), გარს შემოვლა (gars šemovla)
- German: umgehen (de)
- Italian: eludere (it), circonvenire (it)
- Maori: honi, hohoni, taku
- Portuguese: contornar (pt)
- Romanian: înconjura (ro), ocoli (ro), conturna
- Russian: обходи́ть (ru) impf (obxodítʹ), обойти́ (ru) pf (obojtí)
- Spanish: evitar (es), eludir (es), baipasear, circunvalar (es), obviar (es)
- Swedish: kringgå (sv)
- Ukrainian: обійти (obijty)
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