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Short-circuit

verb

Hamper the progress of; impede.

Create a short circuit in. Synonym: short.

Avoid something unpleasant or laborious. Synonyms: bypass, get around, go around.

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"Short-circuit" Quotes from Famous Books

... which is just like a woman. Whenever you get a good healthy argument started with her, she will suddenly short-circuit it, and want to know if you mean Mr. Smith, or Joe Perkins's boys, which I maintain ...

— Adventures In Friendship • David Grayson

... As a result, the internal resistance of the cell is small and the current which it will give on a short circuit is correspondingly large. A good cell of the two and three-quarters by six-inch size will give eighteen or twenty amperes on short-circuit, when new. ...

— Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 - A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. • Kempster Miller

... a new factor that had got to short-circuit that end, and Prickles didn't wait to meditate prehistorically that time. He came. He came full tilt into the midst of the melee like—well, like a clockwork toy still, that couldn't stop. Only he did stop, against the biggest rat of all, ducking his head, ...

— The Way of the Wild • F. St. Mars