escape, avoid, evade, elude, shun, eschew mean to get away or keep away from something. escape stresses the fact of getting away or being passed by not necessarily through effort or by conscious intent.
AVOID definition: 1. to stay away from someone or something: 2. to prevent something from happening or to not allow…. Learn more.
- to keep away from; keep clear of; shun: to avoid a person. 2. to prevent from happening: to avoid falling. 3. Law. to make void or of no effect; invalidate; annul.
If you avoid a person or thing, you keep away from them. When talking to someone, if you avoid the subject, you keep the conversation away from a particular topic.
Avoid definition: To prevent from happening. To take measures so as not to meet or see (someone).
avoid (third-person singular simple present avoids, present participle avoiding, simple past and past participle avoided) (transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.
AVOID definition: to keep away from; keep clear of; shun. See examples of avoid used in a sentence.
Definition of avoid verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.