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. Proverb:

   Bypass monks with a big stride; have nothing to do with priests, except at Mass.

2. 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.

3. Tom Fitton:

   It’s an easy way to bypass the alleged transparency they’re promising, if they’re going to take the position that this information should be public, what are they hiding when it comes to visiting his home? The presidency doesn’t stop when he’s visiting Delaware.

4. David Kimberlin:

   We're seeing a lot of children who are very, very sick admitted to our hospital. We have almost twice as many right now as we did at the previous worst part of this pandemic, which was probably in January, these children are coming in fighting for breath, fighting for the ability to basically get through this devastating illness, many of them are on ventilators, maybe a quarter or so on ventilators or heart-lung bypass machines.

5. Steven Nissen:

   I see heart patients that come in with terrible histories, multiple myocardial infarction, sometimes bypass surgery, many stents and they say, ‘Doctor, I’ve tried multiple statins, but whenever I take a statin, my muscles hurt, or they’re weak. I can’t walk upstairs. I just can’t tolerate these drugs,’ we do need alternatives for these patients.