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circumvent

English

  1. 🔊 avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
    “He dodged the issue”
  2. 🔊 surround so as to force to give up
    “The Turks besieged Vienna”
  3. 🔊 beat through cleverness and wit
    “I beat the traffic”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 circunvenir to circumvent
  2. 🔊 burlar to circumvent, to evade, to cheat
  3. 🔊 eludir to circumvent, to elude, to avoid, to evade, to escape, to get around

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