Circumnavigate

Quick meaning: Circumnavigate is a verb meaning (transitive) To travel completely around somewhere or something, especially by sail.

Meaning

(transitive) To travel completely around somewhere or something, especially by sail.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To circumvent or bypass.
2. (intransitive, sailing) To sail around the world.

Example Sentences

We circumnavigated the Mediterranean.

Jack and Lura Francis, both fairly tall, circumnavigated on a Westsail 32.

On horses they circumnavigated the fields, comparing the progress of the harvest on the two halves.

Rebel of the tournament: Saudi Arabia’s Malek Al Hawsawi, who circumnavigated Fifa’s ban on jewellery by keeping his ring in his mouth.

Word Forms

• circumnavigates
• circumnavigating
• circumnavigated

Synonyms for circumnavigate

Depending on context, synonyms include compass, environ, go around.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include compass, surround, circumvolve, circle, go round, circumgyrate.

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