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detour

noun

1 detour

A roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked).

synonym: roundabout way.

Roget 629: circuit, roundabout way, digression, detour, circumbendibus, ambages, loop; winding etc. (circuition) 311; zigzag etc. (deviation) ... show more

Roget 279: deviation; swerving etc. v.; obliquation, warp, refraction; flection, flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure; declination.    ... show more

Roget 245: curvature, curvity, curvation; incurvature, incurvity; incurvation; bend; flexure, flexion, flection; conflexure; crook, hook, ... show more

Dutch: omleiding
Polish: objazdówka, objazd

verb

1 detour

Travel via a detour.

Dutch: omleiden, omrijden


Moby thesaurus: aberrancy, aberration, ambages, back door, back road, back stairs, back street, back way, bear off, bend, bias, branch off, branching off, by-lane, bypass, bypath, byroad, bystreet, byway, change the bearing ... show more.

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