circumvent

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to surround or besiege
to outwit or outsmart
to avoid or get around something; to bypass
{v} to deceive, cheat, gull, overreach
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
to avoid by getting around something
If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way. Military planners tried to circumvent the treaty. = get round
{f} by-pass, outmaneuver, side-step, evade, go around
(n), the opening in the front of boxer shorts
the opening in the front of boxer shorts
beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"
To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around
surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna"
circumvention
The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion

A school in which he learns sly circumvention. --William Cowper.

circumvention
The act of evading by going around (bypassing)
circumvention
{n} fraud, imposture, prevention
circumvented
past of circumvent
circumventing
present participle of circumvent
circumventing
{i} by-passing, going around, detouring
circumvention
{i} evasion, side-stepping, dodging, going around
circumvention
the act of evading by going around
circumvent
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