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Bypass vs Forgo - What's the difference?

bypass | forgo |

As verbs the difference between bypass and forgo

is that bypass is to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass while forgo is to let pass, to leave alone.

As a noun bypass

is a road that passes around something, such as a residential area.

bypass

English

Noun

(wikipedia bypass) (bypasses)
  • a road that passes around something, such as a residential area
  • a circumvention
  • a section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture
  • an electrical shunt
  • (medicine) an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass
  • Verb

    (es)
  • to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass
  • to ignore the usual channels or procedures
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    forgo

    English

    Alternative forms

    * forego

    Verb

  • To let pass, to leave alone
  • To do without, to abandon
  • The only way to avoid shame is to forgo acting shamefully.
  • To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo.
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