circumvent vs circumnavigate
Definitions
verb
- surround so as to force to give up
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- beat through cleverness and wit
Examples
The team apparently circumvented locked gates and an alarm system, while the sculpture was in the process of being moved to another location.
To circumvent this problem, I have devised a system of price bands.
Traffic wardens in Bristol who issue the most tickets are being rewarded with meals and pens to circumvent a ban on financial incentives.
Definitions
verb
- travel around, either by plane or ship
Examples
They are the charts of a new frontier, modern-day versions of the maps made before ships circumnavigated the globe.
As Twaddell digs into his briefcase to fish out some facts and figures about the business, he has to circumnavigate a couple of cereal boxes that he is about to show to clients.
This is the ending that I want for my year, an ending that celebrates all the joy that circumnavigated the grief, and ending that finds the bravery in the fear and the beauty in the darkness and the wonder and greatness and living and loving that was in everything.
