bypassed
Took alternate route
Bypassed is the past tense of bypass, meaning to go around or avoid something.
A road bypasses a town by routing traffic around it rather than through it.
A surgeon bypasses a blocked artery by creating an alternate route for blood flow.
Figuratively, to bypass someone is to circumvent their authority or skip over them: She bypassed her supervisor and went straight to the director.
Avoided by going around
- detouredTook indirect path
- reroutedSent a different way
- sidesteppedAvoided by moving aside
- evadedSuccessfully avoided capture
avoided · dodged · eluded · outmaneuvered · outflanked · circumnavigated · diverted · ducked
Not given consideration
- overlookedNot noticed or considered
- unheededIgnored after being given
- neglectedNot given proper attention
- dismissedReleased from duty
snubbed · spurned · slighted · skipped · passed-over · unacknowledged · unnoticed · undervalued
Pushed to society's edges
- excludedShut out, denied entry
- benchedTaken out of action
- demotedReduced in rank
- displacedShifted from proper location
ostracized · shunned · overlooked · underutilized · sidetracked · outcast · shelved · neglected
Replaced by something newer
- outdatedNo longer in use
- antiquatedOld and outdated
- deprecatedFormally advised against using
- outmodedNo longer in fashion
replaced · surpassed · redundant · disused · mothballed · phased-out · leapfrogged · upgraded
skirted
Avoided by going around
- detouredTook indirect path
- reroutedSent a different way
- sidesteppedAvoided by moving aside
evaded · avoided · dodged · eluded · outmaneuvered · outflanked · circumnavigated · diverted · ducked · workaround
disregarded
Not given consideration
- overlookedNot noticed or considered
- unheededIgnored after being given
- neglectedNot given proper attention
dismissed · snubbed · spurned · slighted · skipped · passed-over · unacknowledged · unnoticed · undervalued · discounted
marginalized
Pushed to society's edges
displaced · ostracized · shunned · overlooked · underutilized · sidetracked · outcast · shelved · neglected · underrepresented
superseded
Replaced by something newer
- outdatedNo longer in use
- antiquatedOld and outdated
- deprecatedFormally advised against using
outmoded · replaced · surpassed · redundant · disused · mothballed · phased-out · leapfrogged · upgraded · supplanted
- movement verbsgo, walk, run, move, walked
- overlookedoverlooked, unnoticed, ignored, forgotten, neglected
- Forbiddenforbidden, prohibited, banned, not allowed, off-limits
- sidelinedbenched, shelved, sidetracked, put on hold, on hold
- rejectedrejected, spurned, rebuffed, snubbed, refused
- remote placesremote, distant, far, faraway, afar
bypassedtraversed
Traveled across something
passed through · went through · entered · crossed · navigated
bypassedincluded
Made part of
incorporated · involved · engaged · utilized · employed
bypassedconfronted
Challenged or opposed directly
faced · addressed · tackled · dealt with · took on
- bypass surgeryRerouting blood past blockages
- double bypassTwo-vessel cardiac surgery
- triple bypassThree-vessel cardiac graft
- gastric bypassStomach-shrinking weight operation
- coronary bypassRerouting blood past blockage
- quadruple bypassFour coronary arteries redirected