ALL meanings of avoid
a·void
A a - verb avoid If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening. 3
- verb avoid If you avoid doing something, you choose not to do it, or you put yourself in a situation where you do not have to do it. 3
- verb avoid 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
- verb avoid If a person or vehicle avoids someone or something, they change the direction they are moving in, so that they do not hit them. 3
- verb avoid to keep out of the way of 3
- verb avoid to refrain from doing 3
- verb avoid to prevent from happening 3
- verb avoid to make (a plea, contract, etc) void; invalidate; quash 3
- verb avoid to expel 3
- verb avoid to depart from 3
- verb transitive avoid to make void; annul, invalidate, or quash (a plea, etc. in law) 3
- verb transitive avoid to keep away from; evade; shun 3
- verb transitive avoid to keep from happening 3
- verb transitive avoid to void; empty 3
- verb transitive avoid to go away from; leave 3
- noun avoid Keep away from or stop oneself from doing (something). 1
- verb with object avoid to keep away from; keep clear of; shun: to avoid a person; to avoid taxes; to avoid danger. 1
- verb with object avoid to prevent from happening: to avoid falling. 1
- verb with object avoid Law. to make void or of no effect; invalidate. 1
- verb with object avoid Obsolete. to empty; eject or expel. 1
- transitive verb avoid stay away from 1
- transitive verb avoid stay away from 1
- transitive verb avoid escape, evade 1
- transitive verb avoid escape, evade 1
- transitive verb avoid not do sth 1
- transitive verb avoid not do sth 1
- transitive verb avoid tax, etc.: evade 1
- transitive verb avoid tax, etc.: evade 1
- verb avoid (Transitive Verb) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from. 0
- verb avoid (Transitive Verb) OBS To make empty; to clear. 0
- verb avoid (Transitive Verb) (now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract). 0
- verb avoid (Transitive Verb) (law) 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. 0
- verb avoid (Transitive Verb) OBS To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions. 0
- verb avoid (Transitive Verb) OBS To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from. 0
- verb avoid (Transitive Verb) OBS To get rid of. 0
- verb avoid (Intransitive Verb) OBS To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away. 0
- verb avoid (Intransitive Verb) OBS To become void or vacant. 0