Avoid

Verb

 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  To make empty; to clear.
 * 3)  To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
 * 4)  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.
 * 5)  To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
 * 6)  To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
 * 7)   To get rid of.
 * 8)  To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
 * 9)   To become void or vacant.

Adverbs for Avoid
zealously; openly; studiously; industriously; contemptuously; scrupulously; cautiously; purposely; persistently; honorably; sedulously; decorously; involuntarily; totally; vigilantly; absolutely.

Synonyms for Avoid
shun, escape, evade, dodge, forbear, eschew, elude.

Antonyms for Avoid
seek, meet, encounter, face.

Thesaurus
abstain; abstain from; avert; be stuck-up; bilk; blench; blink; circumvent; cringe; debar; deflect; divert; do without; dodge; double; draw back; duck; elude; escape; eschew; evade; exclude; fade; fall back; fight shy of; flinch; forbear; forbid; forgo; give place to; hang back; hold aloof; hold aloof from; hold back; jib; keep aloof; keep away from; keep clear of; keep from; keep hands off; keep off; keep remote from; leave alone; let alone; let go by; make way for; never touch; not meddle with; not touch; obviate; pass up; preclude; prevent; prohibit; pull back; quail; recoil; reel back; refrain; refrain from; retreat; sheer off; shrink; shrink back; shun; shy; sidestep; spare; stand aloof; stand aloof from; start aside; start back; stay detached from; steer clear of; swerve; turn aside; turn away from; ward off; weasel; weasel out; wince; withhold

Etymology
From avoiden: <  avoider:,  esvuidier: < es-: + vuidier: <  viduare: < viduus:; see void.

Translations

 * Arabic: تجنب
 * Bulgarian: отбягвам, страня от
 * Chinese:, 回避,
 * Czech: vyhnout se
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: vältima, hoiduma
 * Finnish: välttää (5), karttaa (5),
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 避ける,,  斎む
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Polish: unikać (5)
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: evita, ocoli
 * Russian:,   , уклоняться
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: отменям,