<p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.</li><li>to avoid (defeat, failure, unpleasantness, etc.) by artfulness or deception; avoid by anticipating or outwitting: He circumvented capture by anticipating their movements.</li><li>to surround or encompass, as by stratagem; entrap: to circumvent a body of enemy troops.</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms:</strong></p><ul><li>outwit</li><li>evade</li><li>elude</li><li>escape</li></ul>