Definitions For Circumvent

verb

  • Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
  • Beat through cleverness and wit
  • Surround so as to force to give up
  • To avoid being stopped by (something, such as a law or rule) : to get around (something) in a clever and sometimes dishonest way

Is Circumvent a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
19
Words with Friends
25

The word Circumvent is worth 19 points in Scrabble and 25 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Circumvent in a Sentence

  • We circumvented the problem by using a different program.
  • He found a way to circumvent the law.

Synonyms for Circumvent

Antonyms for Circumvent

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