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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. shuntnoun

    a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another

    "an arteriovenus shunt"

    Synonyms:
    electrical shunt, bypass

  2. shunt, electrical shunt, bypassnoun

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

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

  3. shuntverb

    implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body

    Synonyms:
    electrical shunt, bypass

  4. shuntverb

    transfer to another track, of trains

  5. shuntverb

    provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. shuntverb

    Synonyms:
    [England.] switch (from one set of rails to another)

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "shunt":

    bypass, diversion, derivation

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#10257bypass
#15612diversion
#20226derivation
#27651beltway
#35362shunt
#178349ringway

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