to avoid
51avoid — [14] Avoid at first meant literally ‘make void, empty’. It was formed in Old French from the adjective vuide ‘empty’ (source of English void [13], and derived from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *vocitus, which is related ultimately to vacant). With …
52avoid — [14] Avoid at first meant literally ‘make void, empty’. It was formed in Old French from the adjective vuide ‘empty’ (source of English void [13], and derived from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *vocitus, which is related ultimately to vacant). With …
53avoid like the plague — verb To shun, or evade if at all possible. Cliché should be avoided like the plague …
54avoid — Synonyms and related words: abstain, abstain from, avert, be stuck up, bilk, blench, blink, circumvent, cringe, debar, deflect, divert, do without, dodge, double, draw back, duck, elude, escape, eschew, evade, exclude, fade, fall back, fight shy… …
55Avoid list — putative list of people one wishes not to socialise with; a list of geeks …
56avoid list — Australian Slang putative list of people one wishes not to socialise with; a list of geeks …
57avoid — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. keep away from, abstain from, flee from, shrink from, escape from, evade, shun, elude, malinger, dodge, give one the slip, draw back, hold off, edge off, go off, turn aside, recoil from, keep at arm s length, desist,… …
58avoid — a·void || É™ vɔɪd v. evade, escape; keep away from; prevent, keep from happening; nullify, make void (Law) …
59avoid confusion — prevent misunderstanding …
60avoid extradition — prevent the surrender of a prisoner or fugitive to another legal authority (in another state, country, etc.) …
