avoid

Etymology
From, from , , from + , from  < , ultimately related to. Displaced native.

Verb

 * 1)  To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun
 * 2)  To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
 * ''I avoided the slap easily.
 * One town was flooded from the storm, while the other town avoided the storm.
 * 1) to keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from
 * I try to avoid the company of gamblers.
 * 1) * 1637,, , London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 13,
 * What need a man forestall his date of griefe
 * And run to meet what he would most avoid?
 * 1) To try not to do something or to have something happen
 * 2)  To make empty; to clear.
 * 3) * c. 1395,, , Ecclesiasticus 13:6:
 * If thou haue, he shal lyue with thee, and auoide thee out ; and he shal not sorewen vpon thee.
 * 1)  To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
 * 2) * 1596,, A View of the State of Ireland, Dublin: John Morrisson, 1809, reprint of the 1633 edition, p. 233,
 * how can those graunts of the Kings be avoyded, without wronging of those lords, which had those lands and lordships given them?
 * 1)  To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
 * 2)  To emit or throw out; to void.
 * 3) * 1577, (translator), The History of Trauayle in the West and East Indies [De Orbo Novo, Decades 1-3] by, London, “Of the ordinary nauigation from Spayne to the west Indies,” p. 224b,
 * the citie of Memi, where is a great Caue or Denne, in the whiche is a spryng or fountayne that contynually auoydeth a great quantitie of Bitumen
 * 1)  To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
 * 2) * 1565, (translator), . Compiled by, Englishman, Antwerp, Book 5, Chapter 20, pp. 178b-179,
 * the bishop commaunded al to auoide the chambre for an houre, and beganne to talke after this manner to his chaplin
 * 1)  To get rid of.
 * 2)  To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
 * 3)  To become void or vacant.
 * 1)  To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
 * 2) * 1565, (translator), . Compiled by, Englishman, Antwerp, Book 5, Chapter 20, pp. 178b-179,
 * the bishop commaunded al to auoide the chambre for an houre, and beganne to talke after this manner to his chaplin
 * 1)  To get rid of.
 * 2)  To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
 * 3)  To become void or vacant.
 * 1)  To get rid of.
 * 2)  To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
 * 3)  To become void or vacant.
 * 1)  To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
 * 2)  To become void or vacant.
 * 1)  To become void or vacant.
 * 1)  To become void or vacant.
 * 1)  To become void or vacant.
 * 1)  To become void or vacant.

Usage notes

 * This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Translations

 * Basque: itzuri
 * Catalan:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Ottoman Turkish: قاچمق
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Turkish:


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: تَجَنَّبَ
 * Egyptian Arabic: اتجنب
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: уніка́ць, ўніка́ць, уні́кнуць, ўні́кнуць; ухіля́цца, ўхіля́цца, ухілі́цца, ўхілі́цца
 * Bulgarian:, страня от
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: vyhnout vyhýbat
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: vältima, hoiduma
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: არიდება, აცილება
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌱𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: περιφεύγω
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: seachain
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 斎む
 * Khmer: ជៀសវាង
 * Korean: ,
 * Lao: ຫຼີກລ້ຽງ
 * Latin: vītō, ēvītō
 * Maori: tūraha, hohoni
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: forbūgan
 * Ottoman Turkish: قاچمق
 * Persian:
 * Polish: (5),
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: seachain
 * Shan:
 * Slovak: vyhnúť vyhýbať
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: уника́ти, уни́кнути; ухиля́тися, ухили́тися
 * Vietnamese:, tránh xa,


 * Azerbaijani: saqınmaq
 * German:
 * Marathi: टाळणे


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:, ,
 * Latin: evado
 * Mongolian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Turkish: