Word Meanings - CIRCUMVENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around. I circumvented whom I could not gain. Dryden. (more info) come around, encompass, decieve; circum + venire to come, akin to E.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CIRCUMVENT)

• Betray
• Deceive
• delude
• dupe
• circumvent
• ensnare
• dishonor
• manifest
• indicate
• reveal
• Coax
• Wheedle
• fawn
• flatter
• call
• ole
• persuade
• overcome
• seduce
• allure
• Compass Encompass
• surround
• enclose
• environ
• circumscribe
• embrace
• achieve
• effect
• effectuate
• consummate
• complete
• Cozen
• Circumvent
• wheedle
• swindle
• gull
• cheat
• overreach
• coax
• deceive
• Trick
• beguile
• take in
• over reach
• mislead
• betray
• entrap

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CIRCUMVENT)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse
• Neglect
• drop
• interrupt
• nullify
• undo
• baffle
• frustrate
• mar
• defeat
• spoil

Related words: (words related to CIRCUMVENT)

• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• COZENAGE
  The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
• BAFFLE
  1. To practice deceit. Barrow. 2. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
• CIRCUMVENTOR
  One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• ENTRAP
  To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men. A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of
• SEDUCER
  One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. Dryden.
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• MANIFEST
  1. A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto. See Manifesto. 2. A list or invoice of a ship's cargo, containing a description by marks, numbers, etc., of each package of goods, to be exhibited at the customhouse. Bouvier.
• TRICKISH
  Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• INTERRUPTION
  1. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon. 2. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to
• COMPLETE
  Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil. Syn. -- See Whole. (more info) 1. Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficienty; entire; perfect; consummate.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• FOREREACH
  To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• UNBEGUILE
  To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. "Then unbeguile thyself." Donne.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• TRICK
  The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice
• HIGH-REACHING
  Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. Shak.
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.