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Word: avoid
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Meaning:
Verb:
- transitive|now|_legal To make void, to annul; to refute (esp. a contract).
- intransitive obsolete To become void or vacant.
- obsolete To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
- legal 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.
- obsolete To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
- transitive obsolete To get rid of.
- obsolete To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
- obsolete To make empty; to clear.
- 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.
Source: Wiktionary
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