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Circumvents vs Circumvests - What's the difference?

circumvents | circumvests |

As verbs the difference between circumvents and circumvests

is that circumvents is (circumvent) while circumvests is (circumvest).

circumvents

English

Verb

(head)
  • (circumvent)

    • circumvent

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to avoid or get around something; to bypass
  • to surround or besiege
  • to outwit or outsmart

    • Related terms

    * circumvention * circumventive

    circumvests

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (circumvest)

    • circumvest

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To cover round, as with a garment; to invest.
    • Circumvested with much prejudice. — Sir H. Wotton.
    (Webster 1913)