What does Avoid mean?

Definitions for Avoid
əˈvɔɪdavoid

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Avoid.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. avoidverb

    stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something

    "Her former friends now avoid her"

  2. debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, avoid, ward offverb

    prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening

    "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"

  3. avoidverb

    refrain from doing something

    "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"

  4. keep off, avoidverb

    refrain from certain foods or beverages

    "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"

  5. invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid, nullifyverb

    declare invalid

    "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"

Wiktionary

  1. avoidverb

    To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.

  2. avoidverb

    To make empty; to clear.

  3. avoidverb

    To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).

  4. avoidverb

    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.

  5. avoidverb

    To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.

  6. avoidverb

    To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.

  7. avoidverb

    To get rid of.

  8. avoidverb

    To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.

  9. avoidverb

    To become void or vacant.

  10. Etymology: From avoiden, from avoider, esvuidier, from es- + vuidier, from viduare, from viduus; see void.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To AVOIDverb

    Etymology: vuider, Fr.

    The wisdom of pleasing God, by doing what he commands, and avoiding what he forbids. John Tillotson.

    The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it. William Shakespeare, Much ado about Nothing.

    What have you to do here, fellow? pray you, avoid the house. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    If any rebel should be required of the prince confederate, the prince confedederate should command him to avoid the country. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.

    He desired to speak with some few of us: whereupon six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room. Francis Bacon, N. Atl.

    The removing that which caused putrefaction, doth prevent and avoid putrefaction. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist. №. 340.

  2. To Avoidverb

    And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it: and David avoided out of his presence twice. 1 Sam. xviii. 11.

    Bishopricks are not included under benefices: so that if a person takes a bishoprick, it does not avoid by force of that law of pluralities, but by the ancient common law. John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici.

ChatGPT

  1. avoid

    Avoid generally means to keep away from or stop oneself from doing something. This could involve preventing something from happening by choosing not to go near or get involved in a particular situation, object or person. It can also refer to the act of consciously ignoring or dismissing certain activities or situations.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Avoidadjective

    to empty

  2. Avoidadjective

    to emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions

  3. Avoidadjective

    to quit or evacuate; to withdraw from

  4. Avoidadjective

    to make void; to annul or vacate; to refute

  5. Avoidadjective

    to keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters

  6. Avoidadjective

    to get rid of

  7. Avoidadjective

    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

  8. Avoidverb

    to retire; to withdraw

  9. Avoidverb

    to become void or vacant

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Avoid

    a-void′, v.t. to try to escape from: to shun: (law) to invalidate: (Shak.) to leave, to quit.—adj. Avoid′able.—n. Avoid′ance, the act of avoiding or shunning: act of annulling. [Pfx. a- = Fr. es = L. ex, out, and Void.]

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Avoid' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1275

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Avoid' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2096

  3. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Avoid' in Verbs Frequency: #185

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Avoid in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Avoid in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Avoid in a Sentence

  1. Renato Chaves:

    What I see is Embraer selling 85 percent of its revenue to Boeing, and the poison pill should apply, what they are doing is a disguised acquisition designed to avoid the poison pill.

  2. Justin Cox:

    They will have to work to avoid cannibalization.

  3. Mike Labounty:

    I have friends that are in their 20s that are getting sick and friends that are 60 that are getting sick, the thing you see on Facebook and stuff like that is, ‘I just want this to be over. I’m very sick,’ so I’m just trying to avoid that.

  4. Ravina Shamdasani:

    It is crucial that all sides exercise restraint and work to resolve the political impasse in a peaceful manner and to avoid the situation from spiraling out of control.

  5. Jeffrey Perlman:

    Investors have also been to the movie before in China and India, so they are looking to leverage that experience in a bigger way and avoid missing out on some of those same opportunities.

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