If you bypass someone or something that you would normally have to get involved with, you ignore them, often because you want to achieve something more quickly.

A bypass is a surgical operation performed on or near the heart, in which the flow of blood is redirected so that it does not flow through a part of the heart which is diseased or blocked.

If a surgeon bypasses a diseased artery or other part of the body, he or she performs an operation so that blood or other bodily fluids do not flow through it.

A bypass is a main road which takes traffic around the edge of a town rather than through its centre.

If a road bypasses a place, it goes around it rather than through it.

If you bypass a place when you are travelling, you avoid going through it.