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Circumvection
- - The act of carrying anything around, or the state of being so carried.
Circumventing
- verb - avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
- beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"
- surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna"
Circumvention
- noun - the act of evading by going around
Circumventive
- - Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; deluding.
Circumvoluted
- verb - wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail
Circumvolutes
- verb - wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail
Circumvolving
- verb - cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle"
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