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обходи́ть — meaning in English

obkhodit

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English meaning

  • circumvent verb To find a way around an obstacle, rule, or difficulty rather than dealing with it directly.
  • skirt noun A piece of clothing that hangs from the waist, covering the lower body.
  • traverse verb To travel across or through something, often under difficult conditions.

Senses

обходи́ть is used for these senses in English:

  • circumvent (transitive) to avoid or get around something; to bypass
  • skirt To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
  • skirt (figurative) To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).
  • traverse (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.

skirt — full definition

  1. noun A piece of clothing that hangs from the waist, covering the lower body.
  2. verb To go around the edge of something rather than through the middle.
  3. verb To avoid dealing with something directly.

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