circumnavigating
present participle ofcircumnavigate
circumnavigate
verb[T]
uk/ˌsɜː.kəmˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/us/ˌsɝː.kəmˈnæv.ə.ɡeɪt/circumnavigateverb[T](SAIL AROUND)
formal
tosailall the way around something:
They circumnavigated Cape Horn Island incanoes.
Navigation & shipwrecks
- astrolabe
- buoy
- channel
- chart
- circumnavigation
- foghorn
- lane
- lighthouse
- navigability
- navigable
- navigational
- pilot
- quadrant
- refloat
- shipwreck
- sonar
- sound
- the doldrums
- wreck
- yaw
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Sailing & boating
circumnavigateverb[T](AVOID)
tomovearound something inordertoavoidhittingit:
Wecarriedthepicturecarefullythrough to themainexhibition, circumnavigating severalobstaclesenroute.
toavoidsomething by taking aparticularcourseofaction:
Manufacturers andshopscircumnavigate(=avoid)gunlawsbyprovidingrealisticmodelsthat areunabletodischargemissiles.
Moving in order to avoid contact
- avoid
- avoidsomethinglike the plagueidiom
- avoidance
- bypass
- circumnavigate
- dodge
- duck and diveidiom
- duck and dodge(something)idiom
- duck and weaveidiom
- evasively
- evasiveness
- fall
- jump
- moving target
- parry
- sidestep
- skirt
- steer
- steer clear ofsomeone/somethingidiom
- weave
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Avoiding action
Outcomes and consequences
Examplesofcircumnavigating
circumnavigating
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
At other times, such cultural theory is simply a mystifying way of saying the obvious, likecircumnavigatingthe world to get to the other side of the street.
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Furthermore, that organisation removes all evidence of address, and so on, to prevent people fromcircumnavigatingthe good intentions of not recording any identity.
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The effect of the low rent test is to give freeholders—present and future—a simple means ofcircumnavigatingthe legislation.
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He seems to becircumnavigatingthe whole question.
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There must be some method of going through orcircumnavigatingthe towns in which the main roads end.
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This was the first expeditioncircumnavigatingthe globe with professional naturalists and geographers aboard.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Play consists of crossing lava pits by jumping across platforms,circumnavigatingother hazards, fending off enemies such as spiders and bats, and defeating bosses.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When viewed from beneath, a characteristic groove colloquially known as a moat can be seen in the gill patterncircumnavigatingthe stalk.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He completed a full circle,circumnavigatingthe island and establishing that the landmass in question was indeed an island.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In addition, it was a port at which smaller vessels could unload their cargoes, and thus avoidcircumnavigatingaround the peninsula.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Circumnavigatingor penetrating them may be disastrous and pilots avoid them.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.During one of those trips, her dream ofcircumnavigatingbegan to take shape.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is now in what could be called a non-interrupted, orcircumnavigating, orbit.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.On her journeycircumnavigatingthe globe, 492 deep sea soundings, 133 bottom dredges, 151 open water trawls and 263 serial water temperature observations were taken.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The village used to be a regular stop for steamerscircumnavigatingthe island, passengers embarking by way of a rowing boat from the ferry rock.
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- non-dependent
- non-depletable
- non-depletable
- non-deposition
- non-deposition
- nondepressed
- non-derivative
- non-derivative
- nondescript
- non-descriptive
- non-descriptive
- non-desert
- non-desert
- non-detachable
- non-detachable
- non-deterministic
- non-deterministic
- non-development
- non-development
- nondeviant
- non-diabetic
- non-diabetic
- non-dialyzable
- non-dialyzable
- non-didactic