AVOID

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avoid verb tranzitiv

1. a evita, a se eschiva de la, a se da în lături de la, a ocoli, a se sustrage de la, a se reţine de la.

2. (jur.) a aboli, a desfiinţa, a anula.

He had avoided doing something, and the doing of anything just now was unpleasant.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

My master, to avoid a crowd, would suffer only thirty people at a time to see me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Nor was the fact of the wound being on the back of his head a fatal objection to this, as he might have turned to avoid the blow.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Wait a little,” he said. “You go too fast. We should certainly make every effort to avoid scandal in so delicate a matter.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again, do so in January (avoid getting close to January 24 and the rest of the month).

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

Till now Buck had avoided trouble with his enemy, but this was too much.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

Weedon Scott had believed that he was quick enough to avoid any snap or slash.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

“And you know also how I crept about and avoided him,” I contended gaily.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

I have more than him to avoid.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

And yet you are still unhappy and still avoid our society.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)