Today, circumvent more often suggests avoidance than entrapment; to come full circle, it typically means to “get around” someone or something, as by evading a problem or avoiding the law.

CIRCUMVENT definition: 1. to avoid something, especially cleverly or illegally: 2. to avoid something, especially…. Learn more.

CIRCUMVENTED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of circumvent 2. to avoid something, especially cleverly or…. Learn more.

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. [VERB …

CIRCUMVENT meaning: 1. to avoid something, especially cleverly or illegally: 2. to avoid something, especially…. Learn more.

Other forms: circumvented; circumventing; circumvents. To circumvent is to avoid. Someone who trains elephants but somehow gets out of picking up after them has found a way to circumvent …

circumvent something to go or travel around something that is blocking your way. Definition of circumvent verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, …

We circumvented the problem by using a different program. He found a way to circumvent the law. The circumvention of tax laws is illegal.

Synonyms for CIRCUMVENTED: bypassed, avoided, evaded, ignored, escaped, dodged, sidestepped, disobeyed; Antonyms of CIRCUMVENTED: followed, observed, kept, complied …

1. to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent a problem. 2. to avoid by artfulness; elude: to circumvent defeat. 3. to surround or encompass, as by stratagem; entrap. …