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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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CIRCUMVENT definition: 1. to avoid something, especially cleverly or illegally: 2. to avoid something, especially…. Learn more.
circumvent: [verb] to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem.
3 meanings: 1. to evade or go around 2. to outwit 3. to encircle (an enemy) so as to intercept or capture.... Click for more definitions.
CIRCUMVENT meaning: 1. to avoid something, especially cleverly or illegally: 2. to avoid something, especially…. Learn more.
Circumvent definition: to go around or bypass. See examples of CIRCUMVENT used in a sentence.
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.
circumvent something to go or travel around something that is blocking your way; Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin circumvent-‘skirted around’, from the verb circumvenire, from circum ‘around’ + venire ‘come’.
CIRCUMVENT definition: to find a way of avoiding something, especially a law or rule. Learn more.
Define circumvent. circumvent synonyms, circumvent pronunciation, circumvent translation, English dictionary definition of circumvent. tr.v. cir·cum·vent·ed , cir·cum·vent·ing , cir·cum·vents 1. To surround ; enclose or entrap. 2. To go around; bypass: circumvented the city.
Circumvent definition: To surround (an enemy, for example); enclose or entrap.