- to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake;to circumvent the real issues.
- to avoid (defeat, failure, unpleasantness, etc.) by artfulness or deception; avoid by anticipating or outwitting: He circumvented capture by anticipating their movements.
- to surround or encompass, as by stratagem; entrap: to circumvent a body of enemy troops.
- to evade or go around
- to outwit
- to encircle (an enemy) so as to intercept or capture
