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Definitionv. surround so as to force to give up
Last update: April 6, 2016
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It is difficult to circumvent the problems that keep cropping up everyday. [verb]
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Therefore, in recent years, the IMF has begun to circumvent the restrictions of its overall quota. [verb]
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The ban on all religious groups is merely an artifice to circumvent prohibitions on discrimination against a specific group by discriminating against everyone equally. [verb]
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I circumvented them--I played at bogle about the bush wi' them--I cajolled them; and if I havena gien Inch-Grabbit and Jamie Howie a bonnie begunk, they ken themselves.' [verb]
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"Aye, shame on the Hollanders and Iroquois, who circumvented them by their deviltries, into such a treaty." [verb]
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Cronus was so enraged at being circumvented that war between the father and son became inevitable. [verb]
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But the watchful Nephele contrived to circumvent her cruel designs, and succeeded in getting the children out of the palace. [verb]
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They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on the three prowlers, and supposed that they had circumvented some one or other of Brujon's machinations. [verb]
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"I had thought that there might be some way to circumvent him." [Please select]
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