Bypass and Road

Bypass

Bypass noun - A highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center.

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Road and bypass are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Road" instead a noun "Bypass".

Nearby Words: bypassed, bypassing

Road noun - A passage cleared for public vehicular travel.

Usage example: I think we should take one of the less congested roads

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Bypass and road are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bypass" instead a noun "Road".

Nearby Words: roadway, roadside, roadless, roadie

This is probably because nobody but a road geek thinks of it as a hub, rather than just an artifact of how the freeways bypass downtown instead of meeting in the center of it.

Source: Useful Notes / Houston
To be even more safe, he had a road built specifically to resupply that mountain, in case some enemies managed to bypass it and cut the normal supplies.

Source: Properly Paranoid
And to make it one better, they seem to bypass the game's own convoluted physics, causing situations where an AI in a road car (which has little offroad grip and can't go faster than 30 MPH offroad) is bumped off a cliff and ends up flying back onto the road up the hill and gaining a position.

Source: Video Game / Fuel

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Road and Bypass. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bypass/road

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