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What does detouring mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of detour
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Often losing sight of its prey, Portia spends twenty minutes detouring through the foliage to reach the optimal vantage point.
After all, during the second world war Hitler's troops bypassed the Maginot fortifications along the Franco-German border by the simple expedient of detouring through Belgium.
After his victory, Alexander rolled through Asia Minor, detouring to Gordium to meet up with his general Parmenio.
Adopting such an international system would facilitate regulations for the authorisation or detouring of dangerous goods in road tunnels.
Scott, as I've suggested, follows the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers while detouring through Burke's Reflections.
The additional traffic posed by the detouring of CN trains may have accelerated the deterioration of track and roadbed.

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