a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.

a secondary pipe or other channel connected with a main passage, as for conducting a liquid or gas around a fixture, pipe, or appliance.

Electricity . shunt ( def. 9 ) .

a surgical procedure in which a diseased or obstructed hollow organ is temporarily or permanently circumvented. Compare coronary bypass , gastric bypass , heart-lung machine , intestinal bypass .

to avoid (an obstruction, city, etc.) by following a bypass.

to cause (fluid or gas) to follow a secondary pipe or bypass.

to neglect to consult or to ignore the opinion or decision of

He bypassed the foreman and took his grievance straight to the owner.

verb

blink at , burke , circumnavigate , circumvent , depart from , detour , deviate from , finesse , get around , go around , go around the barn , ignore , let go , neglect , omit , outflank , pass around , sidestep , skirt , take back road , wink at , dodge , duck , elude , escape , eschew , evade , shun , avoid , miss , short-circuit , shunt , skip

noun

avoidance , circumvention , evasion