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All get around synonyms

get aΒ·round
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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. 1729–97, 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) 1905–80, English novelist and scientist.
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