circumvent
verb🔊/ˌsɜːkəmˈvent/
🔊/ˌsɜːrkəmˈvent/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they circumvent | 🔊/ˌsɜːkəmˈvent/ 🔊/ˌsɜːrkəmˈvent/ |
| he / she / it circumvents | 🔊/ˌsɜːkəmˈvents/ 🔊/ˌsɜːrkəmˈvents/ |
| past simple circumvented | 🔊/ˌsɜːkəmˈventɪd/ 🔊/ˌsɜːrkəmˈventɪd/ |
| past participle circumvented | 🔊/ˌsɜːkəmˈventɪd/ 🔊/ˌsɜːrkəmˈventɪd/ |
| -ing form circumventing | 🔊/ˌsɜːkəmˈventɪŋ/ 🔊/ˌsɜːrkəmˈventɪŋ/ |
- circumvent something
to find a way of avoiding a difficulty or a rule 设法回避；规避 - circumvent something
to go or travel around something that is blocking your way 绕过；绕行；绕道旅行
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin circumvent- ‘skirted around’, from the verb circumvenire, from circum ‘around’ + venire ‘come’.