Synonyms for bypass
by·pass

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1. beltway, bypass, ring road, ringwaynoun

   a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center

   Synonyms:
   electrical shunt, beltway, ring road, ringway, shunt

2. bypassnoun

   a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)

   Synonyms:
   ring road, electrical shunt, beltway, ringway, shunt

3. shunt, electrical shunt, bypassverb

   a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current

   Synonyms:
   ring road, electrical shunt, beltway, ringway, shunt

4. bypass, short-circuit, go around, get aroundverb

   avoid something unpleasant or laborious

   "You cannot bypass these rules!"

   Synonyms:
   swing, go around, get about, get out, outflank, short, rotate, circulate, spread, revolve, short-circuit, break, get around

Matched Categories

1. • Highway
   • Shunt

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1. List of paraphrases for "bypass":

   by-pass, circumvent, circumvention, derivation, diversion, shunt, skip, evade, decking, omit, override, detour, avoid, sidestep, ring, ignore, side-step, short-circuit

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1. Angus Sampson:

   For us, in the absence of having a fully resourced, cinematic marketing campaign, it feels as if the most logical decision is to bypass cinematic release, we don't have a lot of it (money), so I'm trying to spend it wisely.

2. National Railway Co:

   CN engineering crews are now focused on completing the temporary bypass, and CN expects to have the line back in service late tomorrow afternoon.

3. Jason Miller:

   It is one of President Trump's super powers, president Trump understood very early on that social media, Twitter in particular, gave President Trump unvarnished access to the American people and President Trump supporters. What President Trump maximized was social media's ability to bypass the artificial conversation created by the mainstream media.

4. Bob Menendez:

   My focus is to get a deal of some sort : I am not looking to bypass [ bipartisan negotiations ] and go to reconciliation, but I don't intend to go home with nothing in my hand.

5. Jody Culham:

   She is missing a piece of brain tissue about the size of an apple at the back of her brain – almost her entire occipital lobes, which process vision, we think the ‘super-highway’ for the visual system reached a dead end. But rather than shutting down her whole visual system, she developed some ‘back roads’ that could bypass the superhighway to bring some vision – especially motion – to other parts of the brain.