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Bypass vs Outwit - What's the difference?

bypass | outwit |

As verbs the difference between bypass and outwit

is that bypass is to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass while outwit is to get the better of; to outsmart, to beat in a competition of wits.

As a noun bypass

is a road that passes around something, such as a residential area.

bypass

English

Noun

(wikipedia bypass) (bypasses)
  • a road that passes around something, such as a residential area
  • a circumvention
  • a section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture
  • an electrical shunt
  • (medicine) an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass
  • Verb

    (es)
  • to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass
  • to ignore the usual channels or procedures
  • Anagrams

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    outwit

    English

    Verb

    (outwitt)
  • To get the better of; to outsmart, to beat in a competition of wits.
  • Synonyms

    *outfox, outguess, outsmart