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Being Doing Feeling > Actions > Avoiding


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avoid to keep away from.
avoidable capable of being avoided.
avoidably (Adv.) AVOIDABLE, capable of being avoided.
avoidance the act of avoiding.
avoider one who avoids.
eschew to avoid.
evade to escape or avoid by cleverness or deceit.
evitable capable of being avoided.
evitate (Shakesp.) to avoid.
evitation a shunning, avoidance.
evite (Arch.) to avoid.
flee to run away.
inevitable that cannot be avoided (noun) something that cannot be avoided
inevitably (Adv.) INEVITABLE, that cannot be avoided.
shirk to avoid work or duty.
shun to avoid.
unavoidable that cannot be avoided.
unavoidably (Adv.) UNAVOIDABLE, that cannot be avoided.
unavoided unavoidable.
unshunnable (Shakesp.) unavoidable.