What (who) is Avoid - definition
avoid
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Avoid (disambiguation); Aboid
(avoids, avoiding, avoided)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
The pilots had to take emergency action to avoid a disaster...
Women have to dress modestly, to avoid being harassed by the locals.
VERB: V n, V -ing
2.
If you avoid doing something, you choose not to do it, or you put yourself in a situation where you do not have to do it.
By borrowing from dozens of banks, he managed to avoid giving any of them an overall picture of what he was up to...
He was always careful to avoid embarrassment.
VERB: V -ing, V n
3.
If you avoid a person or thing, you keep away from them. When talking to someone, if you avoid the subject, you keep the conversation away from a particular topic.
She eventually had to lock herself in the toilets to avoid him...
VERB: V n
4.
If a person or vehicle avoids someone or something, they change the direction they are moving in, so that they do not hit them.
The driver had ample time to brake or swerve and avoid the woman.
VERB: V n
avoid
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Avoid (disambiguation); Aboid
v. a.
1.
Shun (in a negative sense, or denoting care only without positive exertion), eschew, escape, elude, keep away from, keep aloof from, keep out of the way of, withdraw from keep clear of, be shy of, fight shy of, have nothing to do with.
2.
Forbear, refrain from, help (after cannot).
Avoid
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Avoid (disambiguation); Aboid
·adj To get rid of.
II. Avoid ·vi To become void or vacant.
III. Avoid ·adj To Empty.
IV. Avoid ·adj To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.
V. Avoid ·adj To make void; to annul or vacate; to Refute.
VIII. Avoid ·adj To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to Shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.
IX. Avoid ·adj To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
Pronunciation examples for Avoid
1. this-- avoid, avoid, avoid, avoid, avoid.
The Dirt Cure _ Maya Shetreat-Klein _ Talks at Google
2. rather than avoid, avoid, avoid, avoid.
The Dirt Cure _ Maya Shetreat-Klein _ Talks at Google
3. and avoid challenges, avoid temptation, and avoid
Humble the Poet _ Unlearn - 101 Simple Truths For A Better Life _ Talks at Google
4. Repetition, avoid, repetition, avoid, repetition, avoid.
Knights Of The Borrowed Dark _ Dave Rudden _ Talks at Google
5. So we talked about avoid, avoid, avoid.
The Dirt Cure _ Maya Shetreat-Klein _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of Avoid
1. You create opportunities to avoid conflict, to avoid confrontation.
2. "Avoid quick changes in temperature, drink a lot of water and, most importantly, avoid junk foods.
3. Avoid large armies of occupation and, above all, avoid allies with moral scruples.
4. Couples who avoid marriage thereby avoid legal commitment to their partner.
5. "We have to avoid despair, and we have to avoid the presumption that God will handle everything.