bypass

About 4.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
2. noun A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
3. noun The act of going past or around.
4. noun A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
5. noun An electrical shunt.
6. noun An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.
7. verb To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
8. verb To ignore the usual channels or procedures.

Similar words

ring road go around short-circuit circumferential get around keep off overtake drift jump decking

Often followed by

the surgery graft grafting and grafts is in of

Word family

bypassed bypasses bypassing