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Definisjon av avoid

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WordNet WordNet by Princeton University

Verb
avoid - stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her"
face up, confront, face deal with (something unpleasant) head on; "You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes"
sidestep, fudge, parry, circumvent, elude, dodge, evade, hedge, duck, skirt, put off tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"
escape, miss issue or leak, as from a small opening; "Gas escaped into the bedroom"
get away, get by, escape, get out, get off pass or move in front of; "Bride's Biscuit got by the other dogs to win the race"
bypass, short-circuit, get around, go around avoid something unpleasant or laborious; "You cannot bypass these rules!"
stay off, keep off refrain from entering or walking onto; "keep off the grass"; "stay off the premises"
shirk avoid dealing with; "She shirks her duties"
shy away from avoid having to deal with some unpleasant task; "I shy away from this task"
eschew, shun avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
avoid - refrain from doing something; "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"
shrink from, goldbrick, shirk, fiddle avoid dealing with; "She shirks her duties"
avoid - declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
invalidate, annul, quash, void, nullify
formalise, formalize, validate make formal or official; "We formalized the appointment and gave him a title"
strike down, cancel cause to die, especially suddenly; "The disease struck down many young men in the village"
break weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death"
stet printing: direct that a matter marked for omission or correction is to be retained (used in the imperative)
avoid - prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, ward off
forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans"
avoid - refrain from certain foods or beverages; "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"
keep off
desist, abstain, refrain choose not to consume; "I abstain from alcohol"
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Verb
avoid - 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.
avoid - To make empty; to clear.
avoid - To make void, to annul; to refute especially a contract.
avoid - 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.
avoid - To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
avoid - To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
avoid - To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.

OmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • avoid
    Trying not to encounter a hurdle or to overcome a difficulty, a problem etc. without dealing directly with it.
  • avoid
    To do something in such a way that it does not happen.

Verb

  • Infinitiv: (to) avoid
  • Presens: avoid / avoids
  • Preteritum: avoided
  • Perfektum: (have) avoided

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