English > avoid: 5 senses > verb 1, communicationMeaning | Stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
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Example | "Her former friends now avoid her" |
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Entailed by | ostracize, ostracise | avoid speaking to or dealing with |
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Narrower | bypass, short-circuit, go around, get around | avoid something unpleasant or laborious |
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get off, get away, get by, get out, escape | escape potentially unpleasant consequences |
hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep | avoid / avoid or try to avoid / avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) |
keep off, stay off | Refrain from entering or walking onto |
miss, escape | fail to experience |
shirk | avoid / avoid dealing with |
shun, eschew | avoid and stay away from deliberately |
shy away from | avoid / avoid having to deal with some unpleasant task |
Opposite | confront, face up, face | Deal with (something unpleasant) head on |
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Spanish | eludir, evitar, sortear |
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Catalan | eludir, evitar |
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Nouns | avoidance | deliberately avoiding / avoiding |
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