bypasses
Skirts the obstacle
Bypasses is the plural of bypass and the third-person singular verb form.
A bypass is a road that routes traffic around a congested area rather than through it: Take the bypass to avoid downtown.
In medicine, a bypass is a surgical procedure that creates an alternative channel for blood flow: He had triple bypasses after his heart attack.
To bypass something is to go around it or avoid it entirely: She bypasses the usual approval process.
Send a different way
- diversionRedirection of attention
- alternate routeSecondary path to destination
- roundaboutCircular junction for traffic
- backroadMinor rural thoroughfare
side street · deviation · cutoff · shortcut · workaround · ring road · beltway
Act of escaping detection
- loopholeExploitable gap in rules
- workaroundMakeshift bypass of difficulty
- skirtingAvoiding by going around
- sidesteppingMoving aside to avoid
dodging · avoidance · maneuvering · eluding · ducking · outmaneuvering · gaming · exploiting
Medical intervention on blood-pumping organ
- graftIllicit political gain
- arteryOxygen-rich blood conduit
- angioplastyProcedure to widen vessels
- stentImplanted tube for blockages
revascularization · CABG · cardiopulmonary · anastomosis · saphenous vein
Major road for travel
- expresswayLimited-access highway
- freewayHighway without tolls
- beltwayHighway encircling a city
- ring roadCircular bypass route
orbital · perimeter · outer loop · circumferential · arterial · throughway · parkway · motorway
reroute
Send a different way
- diversionRedirection of attention
- alternate routeSecondary path to destination
- roundaboutCircular junction for traffic
backroad · side street · deviation · cutoff · shortcut · workaround · ring road · beltway
evasion
Act of escaping detection
- loopholeExploitable gap in rules
- workaroundMakeshift bypass of difficulty
- skirtingAvoiding by going around
sidestepping · dodging · avoidance · maneuvering · eluding · ducking · outmaneuvering · gaming · exploiting · shortcut
heart surgery
Medical intervention on blood-pumping organ
- graftIllicit political gain
- arteryOxygen-rich blood conduit
- angioplastyProcedure to widen vessels
stent · revascularization · CABG · cardiopulmonary · anastomosis · saphenous vein
highway
Major road for travel
- expresswayLimited-access highway
- freewayHighway without tolls
- beltwayHighway encircling a city
ring road · orbital · perimeter · outer loop · circumferential · arterial · throughway · parkway · motorway
- evasionevasion, avoiding, avoids, evade, dodging
- highwayshighway, highways, freeway, freeways, expressway
- leaving outomits, skips, excludes, passes over, elides
- roadshighway, highways, road, freeway, roads
- transportation routeshighways, interstates, freeways, toll roads, arterials
- InterstatesI-5, I-10, I-15, I-20, I-25
bypassesgoes through
Experiences or traverses
passes through · traverses · crosses · penetrates · cuts through
- 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