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📖 Определения и значения для слова avoid

📒 to prevent something bad from happening

  • avoid something to avoid conflict/confrontation
  • We must find a way to avoid similar problems in future.
  • They narrowly avoided defeat.

📒 to keep away from somebody/something; to try not to do something

  • avoid somebody/something He's been avoiding me all week.
  • She kept avoiding my eyes (= avoided looking at me).
  • By staying at home he manages to avoid all contact with strangers.

📒 to prevent yourself from hitting something

  • The car swerved to avoid a cat.
  • He braked hard and narrowly avoided a parked van.
  • They ducked to avoid a low branch.

📒 to try very hard not to meet somebody, do something, etc.

  • She's been avoiding me like the plague since the party last Saturday.
  • I hate office parties—I avoid them like the plague.

📒 to do/avoid doing something that is a mistake but that seems at first to be a good idea

  • Parents often fall into the trap of trying to do everything for their children.
  • The movie avoids the trap of spending too much time explaining things.
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