- bypass
- [[t]ba͟ɪpɑːs, -pæs[/t]]
bypasses, bypassing, bypassed1) VERB If you bypass someone or something that you would normally have to get involved with, you ignore them, often because you want to achieve something more quickly.
[V n] A growing number of employers are trying to bypass the unions altogether...
[V n] Regulators worry that controls could easily be bypassed.
Syn:2) N-COUNT: oft N n A bypass is a surgical operation performed on or near the heart, in which the flow of blood is redirected so that it does not flow through a part of the heart which is diseased or blocked....heart bypass surgery.
3) VERB If a surgeon bypasses a diseased artery or other part of the body, he or she performs an operation so that blood or other bodily fluids do not flow through it.[V n] Small veins are removed from the leg and used to bypass the blocked up stretch of coronary arteries.
4) N-COUNT: oft in names after n A bypass is a main road which takes traffic around the edge of a town rather than through its centre.A new bypass around the city is being built.
...the Hereford bypass.
5) VERB If a road bypasses a place, it goes around it rather than through it.[V n] ...money for new roads to bypass cities.
6) VERB If you bypass a place when you are travelling, you avoid going through it.[V n] The rebel forces simply bypassed Zwedru on their way further south.
English dictionary. 2008.
