Definition of Avoid

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Definition of Avoid

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

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

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham Lincoln

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Winston Churchill

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
Kahlil Gibran

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mohandas Gandhi

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Norman Vincent Peale

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
William Shakespeare

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle

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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