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Definition of circumvent:

  • (verb) surround so as to force to give up
  • (verb) beat through cleverness and wit
  • (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"

Sentence Examples:

Was he worth circumventing?

It's not so pleasant being circumvented.

The difficulties could only be circumvented.

There is a pleasure in so circumventing him.

They are wonderfully difficult to circumvent, nevertheless.

Or if sleeping he might yet be circumvented.

Still the same bait, and circumvented still!

Still, you can never wholly circumvent nature.

Craig had circumvented even the spectacular wireless.

He circumvented them, and came up from behind.

Then we can make plans to circumvent them.

He accordingly went to work to circumvent Winslow.

I had circumvented Stahl only to destroy myself.

These simple animals were easily circumvented and destroyed.

We administrators use it as a tool to circumvent trouble.

There was no way apparently of circumventing her.

The question was simply how to circumvent him.

The technology allows people to circumvent the law.

He had taken this step to circumvent her.

There was no circumventing that joke, he decided.

No suggestion for circumventing or correcting that danger.

Cannon whose delight seemed to be in circumventing him.

This was their first success in circumventing us.

"Possibly this will help to circumvent the enemy."

I had the sense of having been circumvented somehow.

There must be some way of circumventing these villains.

Each is found constantly trying to circumvent the other.

"It means just circumventing like," answered the Woodchuck.

To circumvent it, allowance must be made in your calculations.

Yet what could they do to circumvent these innovations?

It certainly cannot assist us towards circumventing this wedding.

The only way is to circumvent the man somehow.

They had to part in order to circumvent a crowd.

It takes a woman to circumvent unforeseen obstacles every time.

It is very difficult to circumvent a clever young man.

Some efforts to circumvent rules of this kind are interesting.

The people were equally determined not to be thus circumvented.

"How do you propose to circumvent and yet save him?"

The newspaper can only be circumvented by the journalist.

Perhaps I was pleased to be able to circumvent your plans.

Both designs were anticipated and circumvented by the Indians.

He also thinks we shall be able to circumvent the Mayor.

Ada's leading idea was that children had to be circumvented.

May not something be done to circumvent this vast problem?

I will see how best I can circumvent this scheme.

She was obviously going to be rather difficult to circumvent.

Finally, it tried to circumvent its prey in another maneuver.

Finally, it tried to circumvent its prey in another manner.

That is the situation to circumvent and avoid at any cost.

I've got to think of some way to circumvent those devils.

He seems to spend his time trying to circumvent my plans.

They developed a code of signals for circumventing her watchful eye.

We'll have to anticipate their moves and build to circumvent them.

This he would do before attempting to circumvent the labor laws.

Yes, he told me the means you adopted to circumvent him.

They only feared each other, and tried to circumvent each other.

In my own way I should certainly circumvent you some day.

Who can overtake or circumvent it when in its tropical vigor?

Saxon ingenuity has, however, at last endeavored to circumvent the sea.

By that means we will circumvent the cunning old gentleman.

Then he set about seeing what he could do to circumvent her.

Again she moved to circumvent him, and again he came before her.

In return, he contracted to play into our hands in circumventing Duran.

Even rich men appear to have taken pleasure in circumventing the collectors.

I think you, as a native of that part, should circumvent them.

Have you wronged, deceived, or circumvented your neighbor in buying or selling?

Every precaution was taken to circumvent the plans of the enemy.

Punishment still comes to us from those whom we would circumvent.

We shall see afterwards how the owners sought to circumvent us.

Specimen trees and draining ditches had to be avoided and circumvented.

We could not think of a good plan to circumvent the brute.

Once in this condition, he felt assured they could be easily circumvented.

It developed intellectual power in the struggle to circumvent and overcome enemies.

One cannot circumvent a fool, because one can't foresee their line of action.

Moreover, she felt herself at liberty to circumvent her own daughter.

The bookseller must be circumvented, defeated, and crushed at any cost.

Do you believe it right to lie for the purpose of circumventing justice?

Thompson and the others to circumvent the savages on their raid.

Do you think it is time to get up and circumvent those fools?

He had circumvented fraud, which is the chief aim of modern charity.

Thus circumvented, Brown came to terms, and things again went on smoothly.

Alone, and in secret, did he plot his plans to circumvent them.

What will these people do, how will they circumvent this awkwardness?

They made several futile attempts to circumvent him and again come to battle.

He was beginning, at last, to see a way to circumvent the Germans.

She spent an hour trying to devise some means to circumvent her husband.

Of what use are laws unless one can circumvent them, as we do?

That is the way to circumvent the man with an umbrella conscience.

He paid lip service to the Crown and whenever possible circumvented legalities.

She had detected it, and had followed at once to circumvent him.

We shall find a way to circumvent it, I think; we always do.

In order to circumvent suspicion it was necessary to adopt the utmost caution.

The higher officials were able to circumvent any law or defer its execution.

Every surge of the sea was an enemy to be watched and circumvented.

The idea was to circumvent, not to attack; to trap, not to pierce.

The conspiracy, instead of being carried on within the Government, circumvented it.

If you have a plot against her welfare I will endeavor to circumvent it.

We admit the facts, but, in our practices, strive to circumvent their application.

"I hope to circumvent him yet, sir," replied Malachi; "but we shall see."

There is a break, however, where, I think, I can circumvent the alarm.