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a⋅void
[uh-void] 
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | to keep away from; keep clear of; shun: to avoid a person; to avoid taxes; to avoid danger. |
| 2. | to prevent from happening: to avoid falling. |
| 3. | Law. to make void or of no effect; invalidate. |
| 4. | Obsolete. to empty; eject or expel. |
Related forms:
a⋅void⋅a⋅ble, adjective
a⋅void⋅a⋅bly, adverb
a⋅void⋅er, noun
Synonyms:
1. elude. Avoid, escape mean to come through a potentially harmful or unpleasant experience, without suffering serious consequences. To avoid is to succeed in keeping away from something dangerous or undesirable: to avoid meeting an enemy. Escape suggests encountering peril but coming through it safely: to escape drowning.
1. elude. Avoid, escape mean to come through a potentially harmful or unpleasant experience, without suffering serious consequences. To avoid is to succeed in keeping away from something dangerous or undesirable: to avoid meeting an enemy. Escape suggests encountering peril but coming through it safely: to escape drowning.
Antonyms:
1. confront, face, encounter.
1. confront, face, encounter.
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| a·void (ə-void') tr.v. a·void·ed, a·void·ing, a·voids
[Middle English avoiden, from Anglo-Norman avoider, to empty out, variant of Old French esvuidier : es-, out (from Latin ex-; see ex-) + vuidier, to empty (from voide, empty; see void).] a·void'a·ble adj., a·void'a·bly adv., a·void'er n. |
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Avoid
A*void"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Avoided; p. pr. & vb. n. Avoiding.] [OF. esvuidier, es (L. ex) + vuidier, voidier, to empty. See Void, a.]1. To empty. [Obs.] --Wyclif. 2. To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. 3. To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from. [Obs.] Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room. --Bacon. 4. To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute. How can these grants of the king's be avoided? --Spenser. 5. To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters. What need a man forestall his date of grief. And run to meet what he would most avoid ? --Milton. He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. --Macaulay. 6. To get rid of. [Obs.] --Shak. 7. (Pleading) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter. --Blackstone. Syn: To escape; elude; evade; eschew. Usage: To Avoid, Shun. Avoid in its commonest sense means, to keep clear of, an extension of the meaning, to withdraw one's self from. It denotes care taken not to come near or in contact; as, to avoid certain persons or places. Shun is a stronger term, implying more prominently the idea of intention. The words may, however, in many cases be interchanged. No man can pray from his heart to be kept from temptation, if the take no care of himself to avoid it. --Mason. So Chanticleer, who never saw a fox, Yet shunned him as a sailor shuns the rocks. --Dryden.Avoid
A*void"\, v. i. 1. To retire; to withdraw. [Obs.] David avoided out of his presence. --1 Sam. xviii. 11. 2. (Law) To become void or vacant. [Obs.] --Ayliffe.
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Language Translation for : avoid
Spanish:
evitar,
German:
ausweichen; vermeiden,
Japanese:
避ける
avoid
1300, from Anglo-Fr. avoider "to clear out, withdraw (oneself)," from O.Fr. esvuider "to empty out," from es- "out" + vuidier "to be empty" (see void). Originally a law term; modern sense of "have nothing to do with" was also in M.E. and corresponds to O.Fr. eviter with which it was perhaps confused. Meaning "escape, evade" first attested 1530.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: avoid
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: modification of Old French esvuider to destroy, literally, to empty, from es- out + vuider to empty
1 : to make void or undo : ANNUL
2 : to respond to (an allegation or averment) by declaring that facts alleged do not result in liability
3 : to prevent the occurrence of or responsibility for esp. through lawful means <avoid a tax> —compare EVADE —avoid·abil·i·ty noun —avoid·able adjective —avoid·ance noun
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