Word Finder - avoid

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To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun

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To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from

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I try to avoid the company of gamblers.

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To try not to do something or to have something happen

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To make empty; to clear.

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To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).

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To defeat or evade; to invalidate.

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To emit or throw out; to void.

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To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.

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To get rid of.

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To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.

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To become void or vacant.

You can't avoid conflict all the time.

He shut the door to avoid being overheard.

Why lie when she made it so easy for him to avoid talking about it at all?

You cannot avoid me forever.

The carpenters tried to keep the dust level down, but it was impossible to avoid all of it.

On the other hand, maybe it's a good way to avoid trouble.

She's been taught to avoid strangers.

In the meantime, she had to avoid Yancey while she thought up some excuse for leaving.

He continued to avoid her gaze, focusing on Felipa instead.

How long did he think he could hide them - or avoid them, for that matter?

Was he using the work to avoid answering her question?

He entered the castle, following the scents up the back stairwell that Katie alone used to avoid the other Immortals.

But if I'm supposed to avoid the subject, don't act like I'm in the middle of some deceitful act when I try.

Although I try very hard not to force issues, I find it very difficult to avoid them.

If we come across another of the strange fruit we must avoid it.

The only thing she had been proving lately was that she could successfully avoid him.

Pierre turned away to avoid seeing what was going to happen.

She was trying to avoid his wrath.

A person couldn't avoid fate, but they could control the way they responded to it.

He wouldn't await word from the Council but would warn his counselors and advisors to avoid Kisolm's planet.

While they were dating, it had seemed wise to avoid making him aware of her desire for him.

In any case, Yancey didn't seem to be all that determined to avoid a relationship.

This creature I'll avoid when I come calling, which I soon plan to do.

After the first several feet, the angle of the slope dropped more sharply and he was forced to move to his left to avoid falling.

At times he seemed on the verge of revealing it to Adrienne, only to draw back into himself and avoid her for days.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

We've issued warning orders for the populace to avoid the cities, and we're stopping and quarantining everyone at the Mississippi.

The Murray canal, opened for traffic on the 14th of April 1890, extends from Presqu'ile bay, on the north of the lake, to the head of the bay of Quinte, and enables vessels to avoid 70 m.

This rule does not apply in the case of a carriage meeting a foot-passenger, but a driver is bound to use due care to avoid driving against any person crossing the highway on foot.

A similar sacrifice in the shape of pillars is often necessary to support the surface, either to avoid injury to valuable structures or to prevent a flooding of the mine.

To mine ore or coal at minimum cost it is necessary to work the mine plant at nearly or quite its full capacity and to avoid interruption and delays.

Subsequently all extraordinary refo Fiscalr expenditure was met by forced loans (prestanze), but the (1427),ms method of distribution aroused discontent among the lower classes, and in 1427 a general catasto or assessment of all the wealth of the citizens was formed, and measures were devised to distribute the obligations according to each man's capacity, sò as to avoid pressing too hardly on the poor.

In order to avoid the dangerous part of the river near the town a channel was cut in 1734, the repairing and deepening of which, begun in 1868, was completed in 1873.

We cannot avoid solipsism (q.v.) so long as we neglect the element of force or power.

During the administration (1872-1876) of President Pardo the government borrowed heavily from the banks to avoid the suspension of work on the railways and port improvements.

In some cases the culprits were so near to President Grant that many persons found it difficult to avoid the suspicion that he was himself implicated, and never perhaps was his hold upon popular favour so slight as in the summer and autumn of 1876.

Now one of the cardinal rules of politeness is to avoid burdening a stranger with the weight of ones own woes.

In his Discourse on the "Residual Analysis," he proposes to avoid the metaphysical difficulties of the method of fluxions by a purely algebraical method.

The Goethe-Schiller Museum, as it is now called, stands isolated, the adjoining houses having been pulled down to avoid risk of fire.

At first the Angel is seen only by the ass, which arouses Balaam's anger by its efforts to avoid the Angel.

They avoid mentioning his name and represent him by the peacock.

The allies determined that they would wage a war without risks, and they were particularly anxious to avoid the risk of defeat in detail.

He made no attempt to hide his monarchist sympathies, and this, together with the way in which he reported the trial and death of Louis XVI., brought him in peril of his life; to avoid this danger he enlisted in the army, but after Thermidor he returned to Paris and to his newspaper work.

They were from the beginning Separatists from the Church of England; they had established Independent (Congregational) churches at Scrooby and Gainsborough early in the 17th century, and some of them had fled to Amsterdam in 1608 to avoid persecution, and had removed to Leiden in the following year.

We do not use such noise, but rather seek to avoid it.

Just as the Gathas (the ancient Zoroastrian hymns) omit Gaokerena, and the Hebrew prophets on the whole avoid mythological phrases, so this old Hebrew thinker prunes the primitive exuberance of the traditional myth.

The Minister endeavoured on the one hand to safeguard the principle of freedom of instruction, and on the other hand to avoid anything resembling a Kulturkampf.

Almeida sought to subordinate all else to sea power and commerce, to concentrate the whole naval and military force of the kingdom on the maintenance of maritime ascendancy; to annex no territory, to avoid risking troops ashore, and to leave the defence of such factories as might be necessary to friendly native powers, which would receive in return the support of the Portuguese fleet.

She chose her clothing carefully to avoid gender ambiguity.

To avoid the connotation of correctness, I would use the word principles rather than rules.