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Avoid

verb

(past & past part. avoided; pres. part. avoiding)

Stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something.

Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening. Synonyms: avert, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off. "Head off a confrontation" , "Avert a strike"

Refrain from doing something. "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"

Refrain from certain foods or beverages. Synonym: keep off. "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"

Declare invalid. Synonyms: annul, invalidate, nullify, quash, void. "Void a plea"

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"Avoid" Quotes from Famous Books

... was particularly shabby. This the landlord told us was from choice, not from necessity, as he had two trunks full of clothes nearly new. The reason he gave for dressing as he did, was his knowing, he said, that if he dressed well, people would be talking to him, which he wished to avoid; but, that by dressing as he did, he made sure that no one would ever think of giving him any annoyance of that kind. I thought this idea unique: and whether he be still at Niagara, or has taken up his abode at the foot of the Rocky mountains, I pronounce him to be ...

— A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America • S. A. Ferrall

... May afternoon. Joan was dressing for dinner, dressing slowly, tremblingly—she did not mean to go downstairs until dinner was served if she could avoid it. ...

— The Shield of Silence • Harriet T. Comstock

... enthusiasm for the ideals of his own side; but while his leaders spoke, he became gradually converted to the other way of thinking, if thinking it could be called, and had to feign illness in order to avoid making a fool of himself—an experience which had sickened ...

— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf

... of such over-crowding, to avoid being dominated by any spook, to at last place our foot upon actual ground, there is but one way: to take as our starting-point the only real being, our own Ego, "Away then with everything that is not wholly and solely my own affair! You think my own concerns must at least be 'good ...

— Anarchism and Socialism • George Plechanoff

... to the hut. When he returned he could not avoid stopping half way to admire the elegant and simple silhouette of the young woman, defined sharply against the blackness of the wood, her fine countenance slightly illuminated by the firelight. The moment she ...

— Monsieur de Camors, Complete • Octave Feuillet

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