English-Thai Dictionary

circumvent

VT หลีกเลี่ยง  avoid elude bypass lik-liang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CIRCUMVENT

v.t.Literally, to come round; hence, To gain advantage over another, or to accomplish a purpose, by arts, stratagem, or deception; to deceive; to prevail over another by wiles or fraud; to delude; to impose on.

 

CIRCUMVENTED

pp. Deceived by craft or stratagem; deluded.

 

CIRCUMVENTING

ppr. Deceiving; imposing on.

 

CIRCUMVENTION

n. 1. The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
2. Prevention; preoccupation.

 

CIRCUMVENTIVE

a.Deceiving by artifices; deluding.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CIRCUMVENT

Cir `cum *vent ", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Circumvented; p. pr. vb. n.Circumventing. ] Etym: [L. circumventis, p. p. of circumvenire, to come around, encompass, decieve; circum + venire to come, akin to E. come. ]

 

Defn: To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around. I circumvented whom I could not gain. Dryden.

 

CIRCUMVENTION

Cir `cum *ven "tion, n. Etym: [L. circumventio.]

 

Defn: The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion. A school in which he learns sly circumvention. Cowper.

 

CIRCUMVENTIVE

CIRCUMVENTIVE Cir `cum *vent "ive, a.

 

Defn: Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; deluding.

 

CIRCUMVENTOR

Cir `cum *vent "or, n. Etym: [L.]

 

Defn: One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

circumvent

cir cum vent |ˌsərkəmˈvent ˈˌsərkəmˈˌvɛnt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] find a way around (an obstacle ). • overcome (a problem or difficulty ), typically in a clever and surreptitious way: I found it quite easy to circumvent security. • archaic deceive; outwit: he's circumvented her with some of his stories. DERIVATIVES cir cum ven tion |-ˈvenCHən |noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin circumvent- ‘skirted around, ’ from the verb circumvenire, from circum ‘around ’ + venire ‘come. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

circumvent

circumvent |səːkəmˈvɛnt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 find a way around (an obstacle ). • overcome (a problem or difficulty ) in a clever and surreptitious way: it was always possible to circumvent the regulations. 2 archaic deceive; outwit. DERIVATIVES circumvention noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin circumvent- ‘skirted around ’, from the verb circumvenire, from circum ‘around ’ + venire ‘come ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

circumvent

circumvent verb the checkpoints were easy to circumvent: avoid, get around, get past, evade, bypass, sidestep, dodge; informal duck.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

circumvent

circumvent verb although the law limits individual contributions, it ’s easy to circumvent: avoid, get round, find a way round, evade, get past, bypass, sidestep, dodge; overcome, outwit, outmanoeuvre, foil; N. Amer. end-run; informal duck.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

circumvent

cir cum vent /sə̀ː r kəmvént /動詞 他動詞 1 〈人 〉を策略にかける, 陥れる, 出し抜く ; 〈計画など 〉の裏をかく ; 〈法律など 〉の抜け道を見つけ出す .2 〈障害物など 〉を迂回 （うかい ）する .3 …を巡る, 一回りする .～er, c ì r cum v é n tor 名詞

 

circumvention

c ì r cum v é n tion 名詞 U 回避 , 迂回 （うかい ）; (巧妙に )切り [すり ]抜けること .