All get around synonyms
get aΒ·round
G g 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.).