avoid
avoid is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To empty. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. To empty.
- adjective. To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
- adjective. To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.
- adjective. To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
- adjective. 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.
- adjective. To get rid of.
- adjective. 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 verb. To retire; to withdraw.
- intransitive verb. To become void or vacant.
- verb. stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something
"Her former friends now avoid her"
- verb. refrain from certain foods or beverages
"I keep off drugs"
"During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"
- verb. prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
"Let's avoid a confrontation"
"head off a confrontation"
- verb. refrain from doing something
"She refrains from calling her therapist too often"
"He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"
- verb. declare invalid
"The contract was annulled"
"void a plea"
Synonyms
avert, debar, deflect, forefend, forfend, obviate, annul, invalidate, nullify, quash, void
Common word forms
avoids, avoided, avoider, avoiding, avoidable, avoidless, avoidment
Words from these letters
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