circumvent

circumvent is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 25 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 25 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.
2. verb. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

   "He dodged the issue"

   "she skirted the problem"

   Synonyms: dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, sidestep, skirt

3. verb. beat through cleverness and wit

   "I beat the traffic"

   "She outfoxed her competitors"

   Synonyms: beat, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach

4. verb. surround so as to force to give up

   "The Turks besieged Vienna"

   Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, surround

Synonyms

dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, sidestep, skirt, beat, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach, beleaguer, besiege, surround

Common word forms

circumvents, circumvented, circumventer, circumventing, circumventable

Words from these letters

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