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 …

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 …

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

avoid somebody/something like the plague (informal) to try very hard not to meet somebody, do something, etc. She's been avoiding me like the plague since the party last Saturday. I hate …

Synonyms for AVOIDING: evading, escaping, preventing, dodging, eliminating, deflecting, shunning, eschewing; Antonyms of AVOIDING: seeking, pursuing, accepting, embracing, …

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 …

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 …

If you avoid drinking coffee right before bed because it tends to keep you awake and makes you jittery, that means that you stay away from coffee at night. The verb avoid means to stop …