"avoid" | Definition and Related Words

Verb

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
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
subtypes: fiddle, goldbrick, shirk, shrink from - avoid (one's assigned duties)
is a type of: abstain, desist, refrain - choose not to consume

same as: keep off
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