AVOID | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Meaning of avoid in English
B1 to
stay away from someone or something:
Do you think Lukas is avoiding me? I haven't seen him all day .
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avoid Avoid swimming in areas where sharks are known to congregate. evade Please don’t think I’m trying to evade my responsibility. dodge He tried to dodge his military service. run away from I didn't often run away from difficult decisions. shrink from I've never been one to shrink from a challenge. sidestep This is not a responsibility you can sidestep.
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prevent Vaccination will prevent the spread of the disease. avoid Label the boxes to avoid confusion. stop This should stop any further trouble. avert We had to act quickly to avert disaster. prohibit Behavioural problems in the classroom prohibit learning. check Children are being vaccinated in an attempt to check the spread of the disease.
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(Definition of avoid from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of avoid
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Excessive lettering should be avoided on the figure and should be inserted in the legend.
The next section introduces another device called a lexical entry automaton, which is an elaborated form of trunks, for avoiding the computability problem.
At this stage, acknowledgements, self-references and other forms of self-identification should be avoided.
To estimate a smooth function, while avoiding overfitting the data, we can impose a smoothing penalty.
In fact, in both pragmatics and sociolinguistics more generally, the term "ritual" is usually avoided.
The synonyms file provides more specific information so that the generation of certain irrelevant concepts can be avoided.
Many of the workgroups struggled with the challenge of keeping the coding ' general purpose ' and avoiding theory-specific feature tags.
The discussion was not always easy to control but, in order to move ahead with the work, this couldn't be avoided.
The sound material cannot then be avoided, being the voice of the processes of nature.
Spatial separation is one of these guidelines (in addition to avoiding frequency masking and maintaining some temporal-textural difference between simultaneous sounds).
The status of arrangement today, however, is quite different; in new music, arrangement is mostly avoided and perceived as unfashionable.
Computing interferences are avoided by imposing structural constraints under the form of simple rules.
Both the individual and the community approach were above all driven by the aim of avoiding this major risk.
As with the universal property, the primary application of the fusion property is as a proof principle that avoids the need for inductive proofs.
In most respects the two approaches (parsimony or avoiding a possible omitted variable problem) trade off.
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एखाद्यापासून किंवा कशापासून दूर राहण्यासाठी, काहीतरी होण्यापासून रोखण्यासाठी किंवा स्वतःला काहीतरी करू न देण्यासाठी…
kaçınmak, sakınmak, uzak durmak…
éviter, échapper à, éviter (de)…
யாரோ அல்லது ஏதோவொன்றிலிருந்து விலகி இருக்க, ஏதாவது நடக்காமல் தடுக்க அல்லது ஏதாவது செய்ய உங்களை அனுமதிக்காமல் இருத்தல்…
(किसी व्यक्ति या वस्तु से) दूर रहना, बचना या रोकना…
કોઈ વ્યક્તિ કે વસ્તુથી દૂર રહેવું, ટાળવું…
unngå, holde seg på avstand fra, forhindre…
ఒకరి లేక ఒకదానినుండి దూరంగా ఉండటం, తప్పించుకోవడం, నివారించడం…
কাউকে বা কিছু থেকে দূরে থাকতে, এড়িয়ে যাওয়া…
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