Avoid key getting cut

• Say no to
• Deliberately avoid
• Do without
• Shun old artist, wife having run off
• Don't partake of
• Give up drugs with cocaine cut
• Don't use
• Duck last couple of punches thrown by champ

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vb. (context transitive formal English) To avoid; to shun, to shy away from.

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