Crossword clues for avoiding
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Avoid \A*void"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Avoided; p. pr. & vb. n. Avoiding.] [OF. esvuidier, es (L. ex) + vuidier, voidier, to empty. See Void, a.]
To empty. [Obs.]
--Wyclif.To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Browne.-
To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from. [Obs.]
Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room.
--Bacon. -
To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
How can these grants of the king's be avoided?
--Spenser. -
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. To get rid of. [Obs.]
--Shak.-
(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.
--Blackstone.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.
Wiktionary
n. avoidance vb. (present participle of avoid English)
Usage examples of "avoiding".
Macy McKee taunted, for Lee was famed for his ingenuity in avoiding exercise.
He managed to warn me about avoiding violence of any kind, then he started to get yanked back and told me about the bugs in the mess hall.
The mda, accustomed to living alone and avoiding creatures which talked, was taken aback to hear unfamiliar sounds emitted by another mda.
Old hands at this Hunt, like Todd's Gypsy, Hrriss' Rrhee, the old mares that Errala and Hrrin used, calmly circulated, miraculously avoiding a kick or a bite.
They looked, for all the world, as if they were avoiding an unpleasant smell.
She exhaled, part in exasperation, part in anger until her eyes, avoiding his, fell on the map, its mountain mounds and the Rift outlined in the last of the westerly light.
Keff ducked flat to the floor, avoiding the smoke-bubble bombs, then sprang up.
She had survived, only narrowly avoiding the madness that haunts sensory deprivation.
This flat parapet appeared to be the landing pad for Thelerie visiting the structure, avoiding the dusty plain below.
She gathered her wings about her, avoiding the water flying out of the door of the spare cabin.
Hospitals were fearsome places to Tiria, who had always made a practice of avoiding medics, as well as quacks.
She was about to leave at fifteen minutes before the hour - the boat yard being downhill from the house - when she realized that Turian had been evading, or avoiding, the stalkings of many girls far more adept at this sort of flirting than she.
Shanganagh was the odd one out, avoiding the other two until inexorable forces pulled her between their paths at Passover.
He scurried forward, more desirous of avoiding her immediate wrath than courting disfavor of an absent authority.
Finally hunger could no longer be denied and they sprinted back to the secret clearing, patting each other dry, carefully avoiding the sorest spots.