Definition of avoids in English

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avoids, verb, present, 3rd person singular of avoid (infinitive).

WordNet

Verb avoids, avoiding, avoided
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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Wiktionary

avoid (Verb)
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 (Verb)
To make empty; to clear.
avoid (Verb)
To make void, to annul; to refute especially a contract.
avoid (Verb)
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 (Verb)
To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
avoid (Verb)
To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
avoid (Verb)
To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away .

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

avoid (a.)
To empty.
avoid (a.)
To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
avoid (a.)
To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.
avoid (a.)
To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
avoid (a.)
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.
avoid (a.)
To get rid of.
avoid (a.)
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 (v. i.)
To retire; to withdraw.
avoid (v. i.)
To become void or vacant.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki 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.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

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.]