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. Amir Ghaferi:

   Gastric bypass is considered the gold standard, but over the past five or six years, there have been more sleeve gastrectomy procedures.

2. That Democrat:

   There are concerns about the gun-toting members, but also we don't know who they're going to bring to the inauguration who can bypass the metal detectors, until there's an investigation and until we understand our colleagues' level of complicity in the attack we don't know how involved they really were. Until we have answers I don't think we should trust them -- not all of them of course, but some of them.

3. Ted Lieu:

   The emergency declaration is nothing more than an egregious abuse of power by an Administration that doesn't like being told,' No.' There is no emergency, but there is a conflict in Yemen that has killed thousands of civilians with US-made weapons and a Congress that is tired of being complicit, the Trump Administration knows that these sales would not meet that standard, so they decided to declare a fake emergency in order to bypass Congress. The Trump Administration's a tactic they've used before. This legislation sends a strong signal that we will not tolerate the Trump Administration's blatant abuse of power.

4. Dave Chronister:

   The Iranian government is blocking access to certain IP ranges altogether (such as news sites) and at the same time they are also allowing certain sites to be accessed, but they are using content filtering to block what they consider to be risky or subversive, for example Twitter hashtags. So the Iranian activists are using different ‘tunneling’ methods to hide their traffic through encryption and therefore bypass government restrictions – for instance, they use a Virtual Private Network (VPN).

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.