Avoid

Quick meaning: Avoid is a verb meaning (transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
2. (transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.
3. (transitive) To try not to do something or to have something happen.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To make empty; to clear.
5. (transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
6. (transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void.

Example Sentences

I avoided the slap easily.

I try to avoid the company of gamblers.

One town was flooded from the storm, while the other town avoided the storm.

What need a man foreſtall his date of griefe / And run to meet what he would moſt avoid?

Word Forms

• avoids
• avoiding
• avoided

Synonyms for avoid

Depending on context, synonyms include abjure, avert, dodge, duck, help, elude.

Antonyms for avoid

Common opposites include confront, engage, face, validate, formalize, face up.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include avert, debar, obviate, nullify, annul, invalidate.

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