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circumvent

verb
/səːkəmˈvɛnt/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin circumveniō.

  1. learned borrowing from circumveniō

Definitions

  1. to avoid or get around something

    to avoid or get around something; to bypass

    • The line turns a sharp right-angle to the north to circumvent the town, and then plunges straight into the 1 in 50, which lasts for nearly 20 miles with few intermissions, and some pitches of 1 in 40.

  2. to surround or besiege

  3. to outwit or outsmart

    • We are mortified by not being thought worthy of trust; and there is also a feeling of small triumph in circumventing those who doubt either our inclination or our power of service.

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Derived

circumventable, circumvental, circumventer, circumvential, circumventingly, circumvention, circumventive, circumventor

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at circumvent. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at circumvent. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at circumvent

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA