bypassverb [ T ]
uk/ˈbaɪ.pɑːs/us/ˈbaɪ.pæs/to avoid something by going around it:
We took the road that bypasses the town.
The oil pipeline bypasses the protected wilderness area.
to ignore a rule or official authority:
They bypassed the committee and went straight to senior management.
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Neglecting and ignoring
- beneath the/sb's radar idiom
- block sth out
- brush sth off
- bury/have your head in the sand idiom
- close your ears idiom
- lay
- look straight/right through sb idiom
- lost
- lost in the shuffle idiom
- moulder
- neglect
- push
- ride
- snub
- step
- step on sb
- sweep sth aside
- there's none so deaf as those who will not hear idiom
- tune
- wave
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bypassnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbaɪ.pɑːs/us/ˈbaɪ.pæs/bypass noun [ C ] (OPERATION)
also heart bypass a medical operation in which the flow of a person's blood is changed to avoid a diseased part of their heart:
a triple bypass operation
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Disorders & diseases of the heart & blood
- acquired agammaglobulinemia
- agammaglobulinemia
- agnogenic myeloid metaplasia
- anaemia
- anemic
- angina
- deep vein thrombosis
- Ebstein's anomaly
- economy-class syndrome
- Eisenmenger syndrome
- endocarditis
- eosinophilia
- haemorrhage
- hypothermia
- leukaemia
- patent ductus arteriosus
- pediatric thrombocytopenia
- pericarditis
- peripheral vascular disease
- POEMS syndrome
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Medical treatment: surgery
bypass noun [ C ] (ROAD)
mainly UK a road built around a town or village so that traffic does not need to travel through it
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Roads: rural & suburban
- back road
- beltway
- byway
- dirt road
- dirt track
- highway
- main road
- orbital road
- rat run
- relief road
- service road
- stock route
- the highways and byways idiom
- thoroughfare
- through route
- throughway
- thruway
- trunk road
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