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Definition of Avoid

1. Verb. Stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something. "Her former friends now avoid her"

2. Verb. Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening. "Avert a strike"

3. Verb. Refrain from doing something. "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"

4. Verb. Refrain from certain foods or beverages. "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"

5. Verb. Declare invalid. "Void a plea"

Definition of Avoid

1. v. t. To empty.

2. v. i. To retire; to withdraw.

Definition of Avoid

1. Verb. (transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To make empty; to clear. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive now _legal) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract). ¹

4. Verb. (transitive legal) 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. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) (obsolete) To get rid of. ¹

8. Verb. (intransitive obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away. ¹

9. Verb. (intransitive) (obsolete) To become void or vacant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Avoid

1. to keep away from [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Avoid

1. 1. To empty. 2. To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions. 3. To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from. "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. 7. 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. Synonym: To escape, elude, evade, eschew. 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) Origin: OF. Esvuidier, es (L. Ex) + vuidier, voidier, to empty. See Void. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Avoid

avocate avocated avocates avocating avocation avocational avocationally avocations avocative avocatives

avocet avocets avodire avodires avogadrite avoid (current term) avoid like the plague avoidability avoidable avoidableness

avoidably avoidance avoidance-avoidance conflict avoidance conditioning avoidance learning avoidance training avoidances avoidant avoidant disorder of adolescence avoidant disorder of childhood

Literary usage of Avoid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Oecd Economic Surveys 2006: Luxembourg by Oecd (2006)
"Combined assumptions required to avoid the occurrence of pension scheme liabilities by 20501 Deviation from baseline Reduction in ..."

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