escape, avoid, evade, elude, shun, eschew mean to get away or keep away from something. escape stresses the fact of getting away or being passed by not necessarily through effort or by conscious …

AVOIDING definition: 1. present participle of avoid 2. to stay away from someone or something: 3. to prevent something…. Learn more.

1. to keep away from; keep clear of; shun: to avoid a person. 2. to prevent from happening: to avoid falling. 3. Law. to make void or of no effect; invalidate; annul.

When talking to someone, if you avoid the subject, you keep the conversation away from a particular topic. She eventually had to lock herself in the toilets to avoid him. [VERB noun] All through lunch he …

to try very hard not to meet someone, do something, etc. She's been avoiding me like the plague since the party last Saturday.

Why do you keep avoiding me? She took a detour to avoid the heavy traffic. They successfully avoided each other for days.

Alan narrowly avoided an accident. 2 to stay away from someone or something, or not use something Everyone seemed to be avoiding Nick. She carefully avoided his eyes (=did not look directly at his …

avoiding definition: the practice of not doing something. Check meanings, examples, usage tips, pronunciation, domains, related words.

To avoid is to succeed in keeping away from something dangerous or undesirable: to avoid meeting an enemy. Escape suggests encountering peril but coming through it safely: to escape drowning. 1. …

Avoidance.