escape, avoid, evade, elude, shun, eschew mean to get away or keep away from something. escape stresses the fact of getting away or being passed by not necessarily through effort or …

AVOID meaning: 1. to stay away from someone or something: 2. to prevent something from happening or to not allow…. Learn more.

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 …

1. to keep away from; keep clear of; shun: to avoid a person. 2. to prevent from happening: to avoid falling. 3. Law. to make void or of no effect; invalidate; annul.

If you avoid a person or thing, you keep away from them. When talking to someone, if you avoid the subject, you keep the conversation away from a particular topic.

3 days ago · avoid (third-person singular simple present avoids, present participle avoiding, simple past and past participle avoided) (transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a …

AVOID meaning: 1 : to stay away from (someone or something); 2 : to prevent the occurrence of (something bad, unpleasant, etc.)

Definition of avoid verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

avoid meaning, definition, what is avoid: to prevent something bad from happening: Learn more.

Some common synonyms of avoid are elude, escape, eschew, evade, and shun. While all these words mean "to get away or keep away from something," avoid stresses forethought and …