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avoided
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
A·void
v. t.
[
imp. &
p
. p.
Avoided
;
p.
pr
. &
vb
. n.
Avoiding
.]
1.
To
empty
. [
Obs
.]
2.
To
emit
or
throw
out
;
to
void
;
as
,
to
avoid
excretions
. [
Obs
.]
3.
To
quit
or
evacuate
;
to
withdraw
from
. [
Obs
.]
Six
of
us
only
stayed
,
and
the
rest
avoided
the
room
. --
Bacon
.
4.
To
make
void
;
to
annul
or
vacate
;
to
refute
.
How
can
these
grants
of
the
king's
be
avoided
?
--
Spenser
.
5.
To
keep
away
from
;
to
keep
clear
of
;
to
endeavor
no
to
meet
;
to
shun
;
to
abstain
from
;
as
,
to
avoid
the
company
of
gamesters
.
What
need
a
man
forestall
his
date
of
grief
.
And
run
to
meet
what
he
would
most
avoid
? --
Milton
.
He
carefully
avoided
every
act
which
could
goad
them
into
open
hostility
.
--
Macaulay
.
6.
To
get
rid
of
. [
Obs
.]
7.
Pleading
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
.
Syn:
--
To
escape
;
elude
;
evade
;
eschew
.
Usage:
--
To
Avoid
,
Shun
.
Avoid
in
its
commonest
sense
means
,
to
keep
clear
of
,
an
extension
of
the
meaning
,
to
withdraw
one's
self
from
.
It
denotes
care
taken
not
to
come
near
or
in
contact
;
as
,
to
avoid
certain
persons
or
places
.
Shun
is
a
stronger
term
,
implying
more
prominently
the
idea
of
intention
.
The
words
may
,
however
,
in
many
cases
be
interchanged
.
No
man
can
pray
from
his
heart
to
be
kept
from
temptation
,
if
the
take
no
care
of
himself
to
avoid
it
.
--
Mason
.
So
Chanticleer
,
who
never
saw
a
fox
,
Yet
shunned
him
as
a
sailor
shuns
the
rocks
. --
Dryden
.
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