All avoid synonyms

verb avoid

• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• avert — If you avert something unpleasant, you prevent it from happening.
• sidestep — to step to one side.
• bypass — If you bypass someone or something that you would normally have to get involved with, you ignore them, often because you want to achieve something more quickly.
• shun — to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
• ward off — a division or district of a city or town, as for administrative or political purposes.
• shy — bashful; retiring.
• jump — to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap: to jump into the air; to jump out a window.
• abstain — If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• shake — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
• circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
• divert — to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
• deflect — If you deflect something that is moving, you make it go in a slightly different direction, for example by hitting or blocking it.
• obviate — to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary: to obviate the risk of serious injury.
• desist — If you desist from doing something, you stop doing it.
• recoil — to draw back; start or shrink back, as in alarm, horror, or disgust.
• withdraw — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
• duck — any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
• flee — to run away, as from danger or pursuers; take flight.
• shirk — to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).
• ditch — a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
• skirt — the part of a gown, dress, slip, or coat that extends downward from the waist.
• skip — to move in a light, springy manner by bounding forward with alternate hops on each foot.
• weave — to interlace (threads, yarns, strips, fibrous material, etc.) so as to form a fabric or material.
• keep away — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• let alone — separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.
• pass up — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
• get around — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• get out of — extricate oneself from
• forestall — to prevent, hinder, or thwart by action in advance: to forestall a riot by deploying police.
• preclude — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
• shake off — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
• give the slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
• hold off — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• lay low — situated, placed, or occurring not far above the ground, floor, or base: a low shelf.
• shuffle off — to walk without lifting the feet or with clumsy steps and a shambling gait.
• stay out — to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group, etc.: He stayed in the army for ten years.
• steer clear of — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
• step aside — move to one side