Avoid: alternatives and connections

To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from.

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To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

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To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from.

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A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.

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An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.

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of Forbid

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To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

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To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.

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To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh!

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To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.

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To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.

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To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.

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To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.

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To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.

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To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.

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A pet; a darling.

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To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an…

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To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

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To shun; to avoid, as something wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self clear of.

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To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pur…

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A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

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A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.

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A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrub…

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A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

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To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm.

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To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.

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To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.

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The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.

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Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.

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The act of annulling; annulment.

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The act of annulling; annulment.

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To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintai…

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To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintai…

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To reduce to nothing; to obliterate.

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To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averte…

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To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or re…

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To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected.

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To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.

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To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.

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To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an…

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To make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy.

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To meet in the way.

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Same as Squash.

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Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.

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To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.

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To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.

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