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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:

No doubt we have here a sufficiently ingenious method of circumventing an awkward class of facts.

A power which it is impossible to defeat or circumvent, stands pledged for a successful issue.

He has established some very complete system of surveillance that we must try to circumvent.

With the urge dying, it might have been necessary for us to circumvent the entire business.

Indeed, had Matthew but known it, she extracted considerable "fun" out of circumventing him.

Both were furious at being circumvented, and the King expressed his anger in no measured terms.

Foliage is always in the way, but even that can be circumvented by patience and perseverance.

Therefore, what is to be done is to be done in wisdom, in order to circumvent their cunning.

I felt a delight in circumventing the tyrants, and in blessing the victims of their curses.

If you hadn't spent your whole life circumventing regulations and pulling wires, this wouldn't have happened.

Thus, we circumvent the Carnot efficiency limitation by using processes to which it does not apply.

It is permitted to circumvent the wicked, and to drive the reluctant sheep by innocent craft.

I now returned home, determined to circumvent the lions if possible in this very difficult country.

It would take her all her ingenuity, clever as she thought herself, to circumvent the doctor.

From that day she and Rosemary were leagued with Louisa and Alec to circumvent the town authorities.

There were creeks to cross, swamps to circumvent, fallen trees to avoid, and difficulties of all kinds.

In every attempt they had made to spend their money they had been looked into and circumvented.

If I live, his strange and deadly scheme of revenge shall be circumvented; yet beware of Ernest!

The taxed were on the alert to escape, and the collectors were too inexperienced to circumvent them.

The approach of this book is to use logic in order to circumvent the uncertainty of parameter estimates.

You suppose I have gone this far without arranging everything to circumvent you, or anything you could do?

Peter had circumvented him by marrying Lucy; the time had arrived for him to overcome Peter.

He blamed the Convent Superior, he threatened vengeance on any daring lover who had circumvented him.

I came to the conclusion that she meant to place it somewhere as a barrier to circumvent Peter.

Was it possible that I had been followed by Wickham, who took these means of circumventing me?

Once over, it seemed to Pansy that the last obstacle between herself and freedom had been circumvented.

It will be strange if, after what has already been accomplished, we cannot circumvent an obstinate woman.

In his mind he must settle every difficulty, foresee and circumvent every danger before he made a move.

She could only express her shocked disappointment at such intentions and quietly plan to circumvent them.

I think I know a sly rogue who will, either by hook or crook, circumvent the king's messenger.

"If I could but circumvent him until daylight," she thought, "this night's danger would be past."

It makes me quite frantic to think I lost such a prime chance to circumvent the old sinner!

It appeared that a bridge had collapsed somewhere, so a new trail had been formed to circumvent it.

They were a wise people, for they listened to the voice of experience, and they circumvented their enemies.

There could be no pitched battles with Indians; they gave way, but only to circumvent and surprise.

He could hardly refrain from admiring the simple strategy with which the latter had circumvented him.

He saw at once the possibility of mischief brewing, and hastily considered how it could best be circumvented.

The main thing is to circumvent your father, the terrible man with whom your mother has threatened you.

The bell, hung on the door by means of a curved ribbon of steel, was difficult to circumvent.

Reginald Henson is the man those girls want to circumvent, and for that reason they came to you.

I really hadn't circumvented, by persistence and determination, the obstacles that lay in the way to triumph.

On arriving at the bottom, if circumvented by the projecting stones, they will usually abandon their work.

Yet he doubted if Julius scorned wealth so much as he pretended; therefore he arranged how to circumvent him.

Having been a digger myself, I thought I would be able to circumvent the men who had no licenses.

You rob the robbers, and strive to circumvent the men who make a mock at all other citizens.

He suspected the magistrate of circumventing Coralie and inducing her to sacrifice her own interests to other considerations.

He was certain enough of it to take the first plane to San Francisco, to come here and circumvent her.

They circumvent the plain-spoken statement of the Apostle by saying that he was speaking for the wicked.

He had fallen into the hands of the very people that he and his comrades were trying to circumvent.

The Count knows I have possession of those letters, and, mark me, he will circumvent us if he can.

You may have structured your life in a way that circumvents, rather than faces, the things that trouble you.

She disliked so much to be alone that thinking aloud was one of her devices for circumventing unwelcome solitude.

Rather hard on Daniel to make him pay the costs of my plots gotten up to circumvent his plots!

There were those among the gentlemen who penetrated this design and had sufficient sense to circumvent it.

The fact that these had been circumvented as a rule made them all the more bitter in their enmity.

The exquisite excitement of circumventing the boys to whom I did not incline was fun and interest enough.

In the present instance, he had a case that required management: a patron to oblige, and an opponent to circumvent.

Your father has been very fortunate: he had a clever man to teach him to circumvent other clever men.

I thought such might be the case, and we immediately began to devise ways and means to circumvent him.

It was "less awkward," as she had said, and her instinct was to evade difficulties or to circumvent them.

And Sara, finding herself circumvented on that track, blushed redder, and uncle Waldron laughed merrier than ever.

Let us more happily suppose for the present that we are upward bound and desirous of circumventing Great Napes.

The formidable character of these associations created a just alarm, and measures were immediately undertaken to circumvent their influence.

I thought it would be an amusing adventure to circumvent not only your curiosity but also that of the village.

The only consolation was that, so far as I could see, I could not have done anything to circumvent Strong.

Often men do not hesitate to circumvent or violate one statute, when they could never be even tempted to violate another.

His disdain of Thatcher's clumsy attempts to circumvent Bassett was complete; in any view Bassett was preferable to Thatcher.

How could he know that a deeply laid plot was not already at work to undermine and circumvent him?

As for me, I never felt so circumvented and outraged in the whole course of my life as a preacher's wife.

I wish Judy were here to circumvent her, but since she is not I shall have to keep my eye open.

If he has high authority for this game he is playing, we will be at our wits' end to circumvent him.

Such is not the Englishman's way: it is easier for him to face or to break opposition than to circumvent it.

Our refugee was interested in the case at once; for he could not permit any horned beast to circumvent him.

How could she circumvent this terrible young man who was going to put them all in their places.

Things assuming this decided appearance, Constance now set herself resolutely to work to circumvent her mother's careful surveillance.

That cunning shall not serve your turn, to circumvent me out of my name: I am for plain naked truth.

It would have been a melancholy thing if we had been thus betrayed and circumvented without errors in our own servants.

"That does not sound encouraging, I confess," remarked Fred; "but I think that we can yet circumvent the devils."

Something of an expert in dealing with traps, he made up his mind that he would try to circumvent this one.

Every moment was occupied in strengthening his posts, collecting magazines, recruiting his forces, and planning to circumvent the foe.

Not even this emergency could find him unprepared: he was as ready to circumvent a matron as to cook a dinner.

Bismarck was at his Pomeranian estate, in poor health, it was said, plotting nothing but to circumvent his bodily trouble.

And this was so, or, at least, our friends saw nothing of the four whom they were trying to circumvent.

What then is your opinion concerning the comments contained in the work, regarding the circumventing of the provisions of Versailles?

If they possessed adverse qualities one recognized them boldly, in the practice of law, chiefly with a view of circumventing them.

She may have privately intended to be careful lest her future expeditions be discovered, but I have arranged to circumvent that.

It is hunted for the sake of its feathers, but being very swift of foot has to be circumvented by strategy.

It circumvented them all, was planted and grown, and finally became a commodity of much value and a medium of exchange.

Lee to read it, but before I could do that, off he went, circumventing me in all respects, and making us wretched.

There was no help for it; not even the originality of their leader could circumvent the department in this respect.

He is instant in season and out of season; and those who would circumvent him must be equally prompt and vigilant.

We may creep up the corner of the wall on the left, or circumvent it by traversing round to the right.

By this plan you will have a chance of circumventing the trout, even if the water be clear, and not rough.

With a commonplace capacity, and with a narrow political education, he intended to circumvent the most profound statesman of his age.

It is difficult to understand why it should make this climb instead of circumventing the hill by a sharp curve southward.

Every feasible plan and device has been used to circumvent the forces of nature and relieve valuable farm lands from surplus water.

There are ways by which the intention of the law concerning little children can be most easily and successfully circumvented.

Ptolemy began to congratulate himself on having completely circumvented his daughter in her efforts to protect herself against his designs.

Though, between ourselves, I don't see why my mother shouldn't do something for me, and so circumvent the governor's injustice.

It now remained for him to make good use of the wee small hours and circumvent his enemies without their knowing it.