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contourner — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bypass noun A road built to route traffic around a town or busy area.
  • circumvent verb To find a way around an obstacle, rule, or difficulty rather than dealing with it directly.
  • dodge verb To avoid something by moving quickly out of its way.

Senses

contourner is used for these senses in English:

  • bypass To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
  • bypass To ignore the usual channels or procedures.
  • circumvent (transitive) to avoid or get around something; to bypass
  • dodge (ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.

bypass — full definition

  1. noun A road built to route traffic around a town or busy area.
  2. noun A surgical procedure that reroutes blood flow around a blocked or damaged part.
  3. verb To avoid something by going around it, or to skip normal procedure.

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