DETOURED Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

detoured

verb

past tense of detour

as in bypassed

to avoid by going around we had to detour the construction zone in order to get to the stadium

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as in deviated

to change one's course or direction we had to detour for a few miles around the section of highway under construction

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Recent Examples of detoured Traffic cameras showed that northbound traffic was bumper-to-bumper and crawling along I-35 before being detoured from the highway. — Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2026 Northbound 287 traffic will be detoured to the Wilbarger Street exit. — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2026 Drivers will be detoured to Doors 3 and 4 on the other side of the terminal, the airport said in a news release. — Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 23 Sep. 2026 Bicyclists and pedestrians will be detoured using Garrison Street. — Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026 But also, an increasing number of Latin artists are staking their own claims to complexity, such as Fuerza Regida, who detoured their corridos into Jersey club, or DJ duo Røz, who pepper their festival sets with electro-rock flirtations. — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026 Southbound traffic is being detoured from West Third Street to the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge, then to Second Street and Elm Street. — Jane Imbody, Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 Aug. 2026 Several bus routes, however, have been detoured to accommodate the set up and tear down of the race. — Mike Stunson, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026 During this time, drivers will be detoured off I-277 Inner at Exit 3A to 11th Street, before continuing back to I-277 Inner. — Dj Simmons, Charlotte Observer, 4 Aug. 2026

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And in New York, Democrats bypassed an independent commission to pass a gerrymander that favored them, but the state’s highest court struck it down.

— Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 15 Oct. 2026
Container shipping has largely bypassed the conduit—which harbored shipments of roughly 20 percent of the world’s oil and natural gas supply before the war—throughout the nearly eight-month conflict.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of bypassed

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But over time, due to a variety of systems issues with obtaining certain medications, the lethal injection protocol has deviated from the standard devised by Chapman.

— M. Sara Rosenthal, STAT, 13 Oct. 2026
The Bengals deviated from strategy this offseason and paid for a defense.

— Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of deviated

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The sides agreed to that trade in late June but didn't complete it until earlier this month, delaying the process because of the NBA's investigation into whether the Clippers circumvented salary cap rules on Leonard's behalf.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2026
But the sides put the agreement on hold in early July pending any resolution of the NBA's investigation into whether the Clippers circumvented salary cap rules with regard to Leonard's compensation.

— CBS News, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of circumvented

Verb

After impact, the motorcycle veered off the right side of the highway through the gore of the exit ramp and into the rest area’s grassy median.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 13 Oct. 2026
Family members of the 39-year-old woman who was killed when a car veered off the road and into a Whittier burger restaurant earlier this week held a vigil to honor their lost loved one on Wednesday.

— Nicole Comstock, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026

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