avoid

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verb

V_es/s

avoids

V_ing/Gerund

avoiding

V_ed/pp

avoided

1.
(transitive)To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.
2.
(transitive)To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
I avoided the slap easily.
One town was flooded from the storm, while the other town avoided the storm.
3.
(transitive)To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.
I try to avoid the company of gamblers.
4.
(transitive)To try not to do something or to have something happen.
5.
(obsolete, transitive)To make empty; to clear.
If thou haue, he shal lyue with thee, and auoide thee out ; and he shal not sorewen vpon thee.
6.
(transitive)(transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
7.
(transitive)(transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
8.
(obsolete, transitive)To emit or throw out; to void.
9.
(obsolete, transitive)To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
1565, Thomas Stapleton (translator), The History of the Church of Englande. Compiled by Venerable Bede, Englishman, Antwerp, Book 5, Chapter 20, pp. 178b-179, […] the bishop commaunded al to auoide the chambre for an houre, and beganne to talke after this manner to his chaplin […]
10.
(obsolete, transitive)To get rid of.
11.
(intransitive, obsolete)To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
12.
(intransitive, obsolete)To become void or vacant.

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to keep away from avoid

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unavoidedavoidantavoidlessavoidmentavoid like the plagueavoidableavoidanceavoider

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English avoiden, from avoider, Old French esvuidier (to empty out), from es- + vuidier, from *vocitāre < *vocitum, ultimately related to Latin vacuus. Displaced native forbūgan.