All get around synonyms
get aΒ·round
G g verb get around
- confound β If someone or something confounds you, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong.
- puzzle β a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
- baffle β If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it.
- stonewall β to engage in stonewalling.
- flee β to run away, as from danger or pursuers; take flight.
- outrun β to run faster or farther than.
- hide β Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
- conceal β If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
- hinder β to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- counter β In a place such as a shop or cafΓ©, a counter is a long narrow table or flat surface at which customers are served.
- nullify β to render or declare legally void or inoperative: to nullify a contract.
- curb β If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
- clear β Something that is clear is easy to understand, see, or hear.
- pass β to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- crush β To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
- overwhelm β to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse.
- win β to finish first in a race, contest, or the like.
- reduce β to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- overpower β to overcome, master, or subdue by superior force: to overpower a maniac.
- weather β the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc.
- conquer β If one country or group of people conquers another, they take complete control of their land.
- survive β to remain alive after the death of someone, the cessation of something, or the occurrence of some event; continue to live: Few survived after the holocaust.
- stun β to deprive of consciousness or strength by or as if by a blow, fall, etc.: The blow to his jaw stunned him for a moment.
- omit β to leave out; fail to include or mention: to omit a name from a list.
- circumvent β If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
- sidestep β to step to one side.
- circumnavigate β If someone circumnavigates the world or an island, they sail all the way around it.
- outflank β to go or extend beyond the flank of (an opposing military unit); turn the flank of.
- finesse β extreme delicacy or subtlety in action, performance, skill, discrimination, taste, etc.
- detour β If you make a detour on a journey, you go by a route which is not the shortest way, because you want to avoid something such as a traffic jam, or because there is something you want to do on the way.
- burke β Edmund. 1729β97, British Whig statesman, conservative political theorist, and orator, born in Ireland: defended parliamentary government and campaigned for a more liberal treatment of the American colonies; denounced the French Revolution
- cheat β When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
- goldbrick β Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- creep β When people or animals creep somewhere, they move quietly and slowly.
- quit β to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
- slink β to move or go in a furtive, abject manner, as from fear, cowardice, or shame.
- lurk β lurking
- sneak β to go in a stealthy or furtive manner; slink; skulk.
- snake β any of numerous limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species inhabiting tropical and temperate areas.
- skulk β to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
- crowd β A crowd is a large group of people who have gathered together, for example to watch or listen to something interesting, or to protest about something.
- slack β not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- urge β to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
- dog β a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- influence β the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
- steal β to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.
- soften β to make soft or softer.
- beguile β If something beguiles you, you are charmed and attracted by it.
- decoy β If you refer to something or someone as a decoy, you mean that they are intended to attract people's attention and deceive them, for example by leading them into a trap or away from a particular place.
- snow β Sir Charles Percy (C. P. Snow) 1905β80, English novelist and scientist.