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verb (avoids, avoiding, avoided)
- (transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.
- (transitive) (obsolete) To empty.
- (transitive) (obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
- (transitive) (obsolete) To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.
- (transitive) (obsolete) To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute (esp. a contract).
- (transitive) (obsolete) To get rid of.
- (transitive) (obsolete) 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.
- (intransitive) (obsolete) To retire; to withdraw.
- (intransitive) (obsolete) To become void or vacant.
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