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AVOID

Definition:

1. [verb] stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her"
   
   
2. [verb] prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
   Synonyms: debar, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, ward off
   
   
3. [verb] refrain from doing something; "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memoires"
   
   
4. [verb] refrain from certain foods or beverages; "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"
   Synonyms: keep off
   
   
5. [verb] declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
   Synonyms: invalidate, annul, quash, void, nullify
   
   

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Related Words:

• hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep
• miss, escape
• get off, get away, get by, get out, escape
• bypass, short-circuit, go around, get around
• keep off, stay off
• shirk
• shy away from
• shun, eschew
• fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick
• break
• stet

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