Usually means: Deliberately staying away from something.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. avoiding: Merriam-Webster
  2. avoiding: Collins English Dictionary
  3. avoiding: Vocabulary.com
  4. Avoiding, avoiding: Wordnik
  5. avoiding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. avoiding: Wiktionary
  7. Avoiding, avoiding: Dictionary.com
  8. avoiding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Avoiding: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Avoiding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Avoiding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. avoiding: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. avoiding: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. avoiding: FreeDictionary.org

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. avoiding: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. avoiding: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. avoiding: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (avoiding)

▸ noun:  Avoidance.

Similar:
stave off, fend off, obviate, ward off, annul, keep off, avert, debar, deflect, keep from, more...

Opposite:
seeking, approaching, confronting, embracing, pursuing

Types:
procrastination, denial, avoidance coping, withdrawal, deflection, disengagement, escape, ignoring, more...

Phrases:
avoiding the question, avoiding a thought, purposely avoiding the truth, avoiding something you don't like, avoiding people, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     off-white,     taupe,     light brown, more...



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Similar:
stave off, fend off, obviate, ward off, annul, keep off, avert, debar, deflect, keep from, more...

Opposite:
seeking, approaching, confronting, embracing, pursuing

Types:
procrastination, denial, avoidance coping, withdrawal, deflection, disengagement, escape, ignoring, more...

Phrases:
avoiding the question, avoiding a thought, purposely avoiding the truth, avoiding something you don't like, avoiding people, avoiding eye contact, avoiding responsibility, avoiding the topic, avoiding death, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     off-white,     taupe,     light brown, more...



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