| bypass | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: beltway, ring road, ringway |
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| (noun) a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current | Synonyms: electrical shunt, shunt |
| (noun) a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part) | - |
| (verb) avoid something unpleasant or laborious | Synonyms: get around, go around, short-circuit |
| bypast | (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, departed, foregone, gone |
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| bypath | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: byroad, byway |
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