Definitions for bypast
bypast
by·past
Spelling: [bahy-past, -pahst]
IPA: /ˈbaɪˌpæst, -ˌpɑst/
Bypast is a 6 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 105 anagrams from letters in bypast (abpsty).
Definitions for bypast
noun
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a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
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a secondary pipe or other channel connected with a main passage, as for conducting a liquid or gas around a fixture, pipe, or appliance.
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Electricity. shunt (def 9).
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a surgical procedure in which a diseased or obstructed hollow organ is temporarily or permanently circumvented.
Compare coronary bypass, gastric bypass, heart-lung machine, intestinal bypass.
verb
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a past participle of bypass.
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Rare. a simple past tense of bypass.
adjective
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bygone; earlier; former; past.
verb (used with object)
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to avoid (an obstruction, city, etc.) by following a bypass.
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to cause (fluid or gas) to follow a secondary pipe or bypass.
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to neglect to consult or to ignore the opinion or decision of:
Origin of bypast
1375-1425; late Middle English (adj.); see by1 (adv.), past
Examples for bypast
The vague apprehensions of bypast years reviving at this crisis, some neighbours had been on the outlook for a catastrophe.
As for the King, he has been hampered for about a month bypast on account of the continual rain.
It's no mony months bypast; it was a lang courtship,—few folk kend the reason by Jenny and mysell.