Avoid
To empty.
To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.
To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
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.
To get rid of.
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.
To retire; to withdraw.
To become void or vacant.
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Avoid Quotations
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Winston Churchill
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham Lincoln
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
William Shakespeare
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas Jefferson
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
Malcolm X
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
Henry David Thoreau
Avoid Translations
avoid in Afrikaans is vermy
avoid in Dutch is mijden, uit de weg gaan, ontwijken
avoid in German is meide, vermeiden, vermeiden
avoid in Italian is evitare
avoid in Latin is parco, caveo
avoid in Portuguese is evite, evitar
avoid in Spanish is rehuir, evitar
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