avoid

1. Stay clear from;
   Keep away from;
   Keep out of the way of someone or something (synset 200813037)
   "Her former friends now avoid her"
   subtypes:

   • circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt - avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
   • escape, miss - fail to experience
   • escape, get away, get by, get off, get out - escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
   • bypass, get around, go around, short-circuit - avoid something unpleasant or laborious
   • keep off, stay off - refrain from entering or walking onto
   • shirk - avoid dealing with
   • shy away from - avoid having to deal with some unpleasant task
   • eschew, shun - avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
2. Prevent the occurrence of;
   Prevent from happening (synset 202458770)
   "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
   is a type of: forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent - keep from happening or arising; make impossible
   same as: avert, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off
3. Refrain from doing something (synset 202468933)
   "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"
   subtypes: fiddle, goldbrick, shirk, shrink from - avoid (one's assigned duties)
4. Refrain from certain foods or beverages (synset 201192356)
   "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"
   is a type of: abstain, desist, refrain - choose not to consume
   same as: keep off
5. Declare invalid (synset 202483482)
   "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
   is a type of: cancel, strike down - declare null and void; make ineffective
   subtypes:

   • set aside - annul (a legal decision)
   • break - invalidate by judicial action
   • stet - printing: cancel, as of a correction or deletion
   same as: annul, invalidate, nullify, quash, void

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