avoid

välttää

karttaa, vältellä puhekieltä To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.

I try to avoid the company of gamblers.

The devyll(..)sayde unto hym: all these will I geve the, iff thou wilt faull doune and worship me. Then sayde Jesus unto hym. Avoyde Satan.

What need a man forestall his date of grief, / And run to meet what he would most avoid?

He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility.

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How can these grants of the king's be avoided?

to avoid excretions

Anone they encountred to gyders / and he with the reed shelde smote hym soo hard that he bare hym ouer to the erthe / There with anone came another Knyght of the castel / and he was smyten so sore that he auoyded his fadel

Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room.