avoid

present (v1)

avoid

past (v2)

avoided

past participle (v3)

avoided

present participle

avoiding

3rd person singular

avoids

1. 1.To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.

   • Avoid crossing this street when it is raining.
   • I'd leave things as they are to avoid problems.

2. 2.To stay out of the way of (something harmful).

   • One town was flooded from the storm, while the other town avoided the storm.
   • I avoided the slap easily.

3. 3.To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.

   • I try to avoid the company of gamblers.
   • He still hoped that he might be able to win some chiefs who remained neutral; and he carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility.

4. 4.To try not to do something or to have something happen.

   • Then he realized, by the immobility of the other children and by the way they avoided looking at him, that it was he who was selected for punishment.

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