bypass
noun /ˈbaɪpɑːs/
/ˈbaɪpæs/
- (especially British English) a road that passes around a town or city rather than through the centre
- the western bypass around the town
- the Newbury bypass
Wordfinder- bypass
- carriageway
- diversion
- hard shoulder
- lane
- lay-by
- motorway
- road
- roundabout
- signpost
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorryc1- That stretch of bypass will be finished by January.
- They're building a new bypass around the town.
- We drove around the bypass to the airport.
- the traffic on the bypass
- A bypass is being built and is due to be finished next year.
- Continue under the bypass and turn right at the traffic lights.
- There were protests against the building of the bypass.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + bypass- build
- along a/the bypass
- around a/the bypass
- round a/the bypass
- …
- a medical operation in which blood is directed along a different route so that it does not flow through a part that is damaged or blocked, especially to improve blood flow to the heart; the new route that the blood takes
- heart bypass surgery
- a triple bypass operation
- coronary bypass surgery
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- coronary
- heart
- gastric
- …
- perform
- undergo
- operation
- surgery