avoid
/əˈvɔɪd/ verbo A2En español: evitar
- To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.
- 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.
- To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from. · I try to avoid the company of gamblers.
- To try not to do something or to have something happen.
- To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
- To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
He/she/it avoids · Pasado avoided · Participio pasado avoided · Forma en -ing avoiding
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De la biblioteca
The doctor says he must be careful to avoid excitement.
Bagheera gave him half a dozen love-taps from a panther’s point of view (they would hardly have waked one of his own cubs), but for a seven-year-old boy they amounted to as severe a beating as you could wish to avoid.
They were within twenty yards of each other; and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight.
It might be made a text-book for detectives to teach them what to avoid.”
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