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Circumvented

Circumvent \Cir`cum*vent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Circumvented; p. pr. & vb. n. Circumventing.] [L. circumventis, p. p. of circumvenire, to come around, encompass, deceive; circum + venire to come, akin to E. come.] To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.

I circumvented whom I could not gain.
--Dryden.

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circumvented

vb. (en-past of: circumvent)

Usage examples of "circumvented".

After that, you and a small security team will go up to Zanthus and pull whoever circumvented the security monitors, along with the guilty furnace operators working up there.

Greg Mandel had located the person who'd circumvented the security monitors, and the five guilty memox-furnace operators up at Zanthus.

Even that could be circumvented by using the jumpspace technique—once space had been cartographically explored by lightspeed outriders.

And that's where the monitor programs have been circumvented, they haven't been altered at all.

Greg had sensed Knowles was the one who'd circumvented the security monitors at the same time as Knowles worked out he had a gland.

The furnace operators didn't know who'd circumvented the security monitors, McNamara hadn't known about the furnace operators.

If he'd had his way he would have checked me out beforehand, but I circumvented him.

You see, it wasn't something that could be circumvented with a bit of technical trickery.

That’s how he circumvented the civil starflight quarantine to dock here.

Not only that, the safety interlocks had somehow been circumvented, allowing all three to be opened at once.

The byzantine complications of the Terran bidding process still baffled him--certainly there had been better firms, but the traditions of Earther government procurement could not be circumvented by straightforward Spacer logic.

The old woman told herself she felt no resentmentsuch needs could not be circumvented, and there was little in the child that was natural in any case.

When Paran judged that they had circumvented the market round, he called forward to Spindle to yield his warren.

The alarm can be circumvented, and no one was watching very closely because Lockmann wasn't there,” he admitted.

Especially with the way so much of their security had been circumvented lately.