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avoid
UK /əˈvɔɪd/ US /əˈvɔɪd/
verb 5
Definitions
verb
1
To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.
2
To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
I avoided the slap easily.
One town was flooded from the storm, while the other town avoided the storm.
3
To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.
I try to avoid the company of gamblers.
What need a man foreſtall his date of griefe / And run to meet what he would moſt avoid?
4
To try not to do something or to have something happen.
Then he realized, by the immobility of the other children and by the way they avoided looking at him, that it was he who was selected for punishment.
5
To make empty; to clear.
If thou haue, he shal lyue with thee, and auoide thee out ; and he shal not sorewen vpon thee.
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