Definitions from Wiktionary (avoid)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
▸ verb:  to keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.
▸ verb:  To try not to do something or to have something happen.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To make empty; to clear.
▸ verb:  (transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
▸ verb:  (transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To get rid of.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To become void or vacant.

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