Usually means: Dodge or evade something undesirable.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. avoid: Merriam-Webster
  2. avoid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. avoid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. avoid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. avoid: Vocabulary.com
  6. Avoid, avoid: Wordnik
  7. avoid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. avoid: Wiktionary
  9. avoid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. avoid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. avoid: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. avoid: Dictionary.com
  13. avoid: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. avoid: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Avoid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Avoid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. avoid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. avoid: Rhymezone
  19. avoid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. avoid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. avoid: FreeDictionary.org
  22. avoid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. avoid: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. avoid: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. avoid: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. avoid: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. avoid: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. avoid: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Avoid: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
  5. avoid: Legal dictionary
  6. avoid: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. avoid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. avoid: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. avoid: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AVOID: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Avoid: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See avoidable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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