Synonym: circumferential, electrical shunt, get around, go around, ring road, short-circuit, shunt. Similar words: coronary artery bypass graft, pass, passe, pass on, pass off, pass out, passed, pass by. Meaning: n. 1. a road that takes traffic around the edge of a town 2. a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part) 3. a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current. v. avoid something unpleasant or laborious.
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1. That stretch of bypass will be finished by January.
2. If we take the bypass we'll avoid the town centre.
3. A growing number of employers are trying to bypass the unions altogether.
4. The traffic's really heavy on the bypass.
5. Plans for a new bypass are still under discussion.
6. Through traffic is directed around the bypass.
7. A new bypass around the city is being built.
8. They let us bypass the usual admissions procedure.
9. The bypass relieves traffic jams in our city centre.
10. We drove round the bypass to the airport.
11. I was elated that my second heart bypass had been successful.
12. The new bypass will reduce travel time to the airport.
13. We managed to bypass the shopping centre by taking side-streets.
14. He recently endured a five-way heart bypass.
15. Yeltsin underwent quintuple heart bypass surgery on Nov. 5.
16. Another bypass was cut; it too silted up.
17. At age 34[sentencedict.com], Payne underwent triple bypass surgery.
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18. He had to have a bypass operation.
19. He had just undergone a heart triple bypass.
20. People with kidney failure are increasingly undergoing bypass and vessel-opening procedures.
21. Or bypass him and go directly to each home site and sign up there.
22. An adequate environmental impact assessment was not carried out on the bypass project.
23. We were in a hurry so we decided to bypass Canterbury because we knew there'd be a lot of traffic.
24. Arrangements were well advanced for linking up this newly operated length with the Lancaster bypass.
25. Traffic in the town has dropped off since the bypass opened.
26. Small veins are removed from the leg and used to bypass the blocked up stretch of coronary arteries.
27. Any genuinely popular and empowering health system could not, therefore, ignore or bypass traditional medicine.
28. Twenty four hours earlier, Liverpool manager Graeme Souness had been discharged from hospital after a heart bypass.
29. Hundreds of residents had a public meeting in the village hall to hear Ken Hind explain about the bypass.
30. And it is generally felt that traffic will get heavier when the new A3 Petersfield bypass opens.
More similar words: coronary artery bypass graft, pass, passe, pass on, pass off, pass out, passed, pass by, pass away, compass, passage, impasse, surpass, passion, passive, passport, passover, pass over, trespass, encompass, compassion, come to pass, passageway, passenger, impassable, passionate, pass through, compassionate, dispassionate, assassination.