Avoid(a.) To empty.
Avoid(a.) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
Avoid(a.) To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.
Avoid(a.) To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
Avoid(a.) 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.
Avoid(a.) To get rid of.
Avoid(a.) 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.
Avoid(v. i.) To retire; to withdraw.
Avoid(v. i.) To become void or vacant.
Avoidable(a.) Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
Avoidable(a.) Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.
Avoidance(n.) The act of annulling; annulment.
Avoidance(n.) The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.
Avoidance(n.) A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
Avoidance(n.) The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
Avoidance(n.) The courts by which anything is carried off.
Avoided(imp. & p. p.) of Avoid
Avoider(n.) The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away.
Avoider(n.) One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.
Avoiding(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Avoid
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