AVOID meaning: Dodge or evade something undesirable

We found 40 dictionaries that define the word avoid:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

avoid: Merriam-Webster.com
avoid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
avoid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
avoid: Collins English Dictionary
avoid: Vocabulary.com
Avoid, avoid: Wordnik
avoid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
avoid: Wiktionary
avoid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
avoid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
avoid: Infoplease Dictionary
avoid: Dictionary.com
avoid: Online Etymology Dictionary
avoid: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Avoid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Avoid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
avoid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
avoid: Rhymezone
avoid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
avoid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
avoid: Free Dictionary
avoid: Mnemonic Dictionary
avoid: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
avoid: Dictionary/thesaurus
avoid: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)

Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)

avoid: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Avoid: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
avoid: Legal dictionary
avoid: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

avoid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
avoid: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
avoid: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

AVOID: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Avoid: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun
▸ verb:  (transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
▸ verb:  to keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from
▸ verb:  To try not to do something or to have something happen
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To make empty; to clear.
▸ verb:  (transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
▸ verb:  (transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To get rid of.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To become void or vacant.

Similar:

stave off, fend off, obviate, ward off, annul, keep off, avert, debar, deflect, keep from, more...

Opposite:

seek, embrace, confront, pursue, accept

Types:

sidestep, dodge, evade, fend off, shun, eschew, avert, more...

Phrases:

avoid like the plague, avoid someone/something like the plague, avoid someone something like the plague, How to Avoid Huge Ships, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, more...

Colors:

black, red, yellow, orange, dark gray, brown, maroon, olive, burgundy, dark green

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