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All get around synonyms

get aΒ·round
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verb get around

  • welsh β€” to cheat by failing to pay a gambling debt: You aren't going to welsh on me, are you?
  • dodge β€” to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
  • renege β€” Cards. to play a card that is not of the suit led when one can follow suit; break a rule of play.
  • beat β€” If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
  • frustrate β€” to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
  • loaf β€” a portion of bread or cake baked in a mass, usually oblong with a rounded top.
  • foil β€” to cover or back with foil.
  • lounge β€” to pass time idly and indolently.
  • shun β€” to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
  • bum β€” Someone's bum is the part of their body which they sit on.
  • hoodwink β€” to deceive or trick.
  • laze β€” to idle or lounge lazily (often followed by around): I was too tired to do anything but laze around this weekend.
  • bilk β€” To bilk someone out of something, especially money, means to cheat them out of it.
  • loiter β€” to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal.
  • overreach β€” to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
  • communalize β€” to render (something) the property of a commune or community
  • trick β€” a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • ruin β€” ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
  • swerve β€” to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
  • avert β€” If you avert something unpleasant, you prevent it from happening.
  • shy β€” bashful; retiring.
  • drift β€” a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
  • deflect β€” If you deflect something that is moving, you make it go in a slightly different direction, for example by hitting or blocking it.
  • divagate β€” to wander; stray.
  • turn β€” to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
  • digress β€” to deviate or wander away from the main topic or purpose in speaking or writing; depart from the principal line of argument, plot, study, etc.
  • part β€” a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
  • bend β€” When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
  • contrast β€” A contrast is a great difference between two or more things which is clear when you compare them.
  • disturb β€” to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
  • abstract β€” An abstract idea or way of thinking is based on general ideas rather than on real things and events.
  • disengage β€” to release from attachment or connection; loosen; unfasten: to disengage a clutch.
  • stall β€” a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
  • sidetrack β€” any railroad track, other than a siding, auxiliary to the main track.
  • dissuade β€” to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
  • detach β€” If you detach one thing from another that it is fixed to, you remove it. If one thing detaches from another, it becomes separated from it.
  • fence β€” a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
  • pussyfoot β€” to go or move in a stealthy or cautious manner.
  • lurch β€” Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.
  • parry β€” to ward off (a thrust, stroke, weapon, etc.), as in fencing; avert.
  • dark β€” When it is dark, there is not enough light to see properly, for example because it is night.
  • slide β€” to move along in continuous contact with a smooth or slippery surface: to slide down a snow-covered hill.
  • malinger β€” to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
  • weasel β€” any small carnivore of the genus Mustela, of the family Mustelidae, having a long, slender body and feeding chiefly on small rodents.
  • slip β€” to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
  • shake β€” to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
  • hedge β€” a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow: small fields separated by hedges.
  • shift β€” to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.
  • fudge β€” a small stereotype or a few lines of specially prepared type, bearing a newspaper bulletin, for replacing a detachable part of a page plate without the need to replate the entire page.
  • shirk β€” to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).
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