[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.", "a secondary pipe or other channel connected with a main passage, as for conducting a liquid or gas around a fixture, pipe, or appliance.", "Electricity. shunt(def9) shunt(def9).", "a surgical procedure in which a diseased or obstructed hollow organ is temporarily or permanently circumvented.Compare coronary bypass coronary bypass, gastric bypass gastric bypass, heart-lung machine heart-lung machine, intestinal bypass intestinal bypass."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to avoid (an obstruction, city, etc.) by following a bypass.", "to cause (fluid or gas) to follow a secondary pipe or bypass.", "to neglect to consult or to ignore the opinion or decision of:He bypassed the foreman and took his grievance straight to the owner."]}]