bypass

1. 1.

   avoid something unpleasant or laborious

   “You cannot bypass these rules!”

   Synonymsshort-circuitgo aroundget around

   Broaderavoid

Other forms of bypass

plural

bypasses·

past tense or participle

bypast

present participle

bypassing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bypass

What does bypass mean?

bypass means "a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bypass?

bypass has 2 syllables: by-pass. The stress falls on "by". In IPA it is /ˈbaɪˌpæs/.

What is another word for bypass?

Close synonyms include beltway, ring road, ringway, shunt, electrical shunt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bypass a common word?

bypass is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bypass?

5 words rhyme with bypass. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.