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 Bike traffic will be detoured around the closure through Agnew Road, Lakeshore Drive, Gianera Street, and Stars and Stripes Drive. — Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 29 June 2026 Traffic was detoured along a route that took drivers an additional six to eight hours to navigate, and the state issued a disaster declaration to acquire federal funding. — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 26 June 2026 Eastbound traffic on Santa Fe, north of Brougham Drive, will be detoured as part of closure three. — Emily Harter, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2026 During the closure, motorists will be detoured from Richards Boulevard to westbound I-80, then routed to Old Davis Road to return to eastbound I-80, Caltrans said. — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 11 June 2026 In the nearly seven years since her Sweetener World Tour, Grande detoured from her hugely successful pop career to amplify her acting aspirations. — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 7 June 2026 Southbound lanes remained closed seven hours after the crash, with traffic being detoured. — Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026 Following the incident, the highway was temporarily closed and detoured as authorities continued to investigate the crash and what caused it. — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026 Drivers detoured from the closed Chicago Avenue bridge pile behind them. — Andrew Chrismer, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026

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With bots already making up over half of internet traffic, businesses failing to update will be bypassed, losing customers who increasingly send software to interact online.

— Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Jozef, still a seminarian who had entered the congregation and taken the name Damien only three years earlier, bypassed his immediate superiors and petitioned the higher orders in Paris to be allowed to take his place.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026

Definition of bypassed

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The Costa Concordia allegedly deviated from its planned route around the Mediterranean Sea to do this.

— Katie Mather, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
And yet at the start of the Mass, a priest read aloud a statement justifying the consecrations as a necessary defense of the faith and criticizing how the Catholic Church today had deviated from tradition.

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 July 2026

Definition of deviated

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The Mariners avoided a third consecutive loss in a four-game series that started as a matchup of the top two teams in the AL West.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 July 2026
The initial read was that Gonzalez, who dealt with a strained hamstring earlier this year, avoided a significant injury and shouldn’t miss any time.

— Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 26 July 2026

Definition of avoided

Verb

Much of the ground there has turned black with ash and many cars have been reduced to empty shells of twisted metal.

— Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 26 July 2026
For a whiskey company that built its reputation around putting more rye into bourbon and then turned rye itself into its second flagship bottle, blending those two sides together feels like a logical next move.

— Emily Price, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026

Definition of turned

Verb

Kawhi Leonard’s trade to the Toronto Raptors is on hold pending the outcome of the NBA’s investigation into whether the Los Angeles Clippers circumvented salary-cap rules, the teams announced Thursday.

— Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026
The Toronto Raptors put the brakes on acquiring Kawhi Leonard from the Clippers, announcing Thursday that the trade is on hold until the NBA investigation into whether the Clippers circumvented salary cap rules is complete.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

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