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(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin circum (“about”) + venire (“to come”)
Pronunciation
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
- (transitive) to surround or besiege
- (transitive) to outwit or outsmart
Derived terms
Translations
to avoid or get around something
- Bulgarian: избягвам (bg) (izbjagvam), заобикалям (bg) (zaobikaljam)
- Catalan: evitar (ca), circumvalar
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 规避 (zh) (guībì)
- Danish: omgå
- Dutch: omzeilen (nl)
- French: contourner (fr), circonvenir (fr)
- Georgian: გვერდის ავლა (gverdis avla), გარს შემოვლა (gars šemovla)
- German: umgehen (de)
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- Italian: eludere (it), circonvenire (it)
- Maori: honi, hohoni, taku
- Portuguese: contornar (pt)
- Romanian: înconjura (ro), ocoli (ro), conturna
- Russian: обойти́ (ru) (obojtí)
- Spanish: evitar (es), eludir (es)
- Swedish: kringgå (sv)
- Ukrainian: обійти (obijty)
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