avoid
suomi-englanti sanakirjaavoid englannista suomeksi
välttää
karttaa, vältellä
avoid englanniksi
To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun
To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
''I avoided the slap easily.
''One town was flooded from the storm, while the other town avoided the storm.''
''I try to avoid the company of gamblers.''
1637, (w), ''(w)'', London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 13,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07555.0001.001
- What need a man forestall his date of griefe
- And run to meet what he would most avoid?
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To try not to do something or to have something happen
(RQ:Baldwin Mountain)
(circa),, ''(w)'', Ecclesiasticus 13:6:
- If thou haue, he shal lyue with thee, and auoide thee out ; and he shal not sorewen vpon thee.
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1596, (w), ''A View of the State of Ireland'', Dublin: John Morrisson, 1809, reprint of the 1633 edition, p. 233,https://archive.org/details/viewofstateofire00spenuoft
- (..) how can those graunts of the Kings be avoyded, without wronging of those lords, which had those lands and lordships given them?
To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
(RQ:Blackstone Commentaries) in an action for trespassing upon land whereof the plaintiff is seised, if the defendant shews a title to the land by descent, and that therefore he had a right to enter, and gives colour to the plaintiff, the plaintiff may either traverse and totally deny the fact of the descent; or he may confess and avoid it, by replying, that true it is that such descent happened, but that since the descent the defendant himself demised the lands to the plaintiff for term of life.
1577, (w) (translator), ''The History of Trauayle in the West and East Indies'' ''De Orbo Novo'', Decades 1-3 by (w), London, “Of the ordinary nauigation from Spayne to the west Indies,” p. 224b,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20049.0001.001
- (..) the citie of ''Memi'', where is a great Caue or Denne, in the whiche is a spryng or fountayne that contynually auoydeth a great quantitie of ''Bitumen'' (..)
(RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica) a Toad pisseth not, nor doe they containe those urinary parts which are found in other animals, to avoid that serous excretion (..)
To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
(RQ:Mlry MrtDrthr)
1565, (w) (translator), ''(w). Compiled by (w), Englishman'', Antwerp, Book 5, Chapter 20, pp. 178b-179,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07396.0001.001
- (..) the bishop commaunded al to auoide the chambre for an houre, and beganne to talke after this manner to his chaplin (..)
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(quote-book)|title=New Atlantis|location=London|year_published=c. 1658|page=7|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28291.0001.001
To get rid of.
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(quote-book)|chapter=The oration of (w) to the chiefteins of his armie|page=756|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68202.0001.001
(RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It) the spirit of my father, which I think is within me, begins to mutiny against this servitude. I will no longer endure it, though yet I know no wise remedy how to avoid it.
(RQ:Tyndale NT)sayde to hym: all these will I geue ye, if thou wilt faull doune and worship me. Then sayde Iesus unto hym. Avoyd Satan.
(RQ:Shakespeare Coriolanus)
(RQ:KJV)
To become void or vacant.