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HEADWORD: avoid v. NOUNS: accident, adverse reaction, alcohol, embarrassing situations, ambiguities, analysis, anomalies, apprehension, arguments, author, breathing, burdens, charges, cheap grace, cheats, church mediation, churchmen, clarification, clinical team, complication, concurrence, conflicting advice, confusion, Conservative Party, contact, conviction, crash dieting, crisis, critical comments, cut(s), damage, danger(s), death duties, declaration of status, definition, degradation, destruction, developing countries, difficulty, dilemma, disadvantageous position, disaster, disillusion, disorganizing aspects, distortions, duty, early election, election, English law, enormous feet, evil, example, exercise, expert, exposure, false hope, fatigue, feeling, first impressions, full-length mirrors, generalization, gratuitous alienation, greeting, haphazard market, hardship, heart attacks, high-and-mighty, immaterialism, inflexible position, insensitivities, intercourse, interference, intrusion, labour, late-night parties, liability, limits of time, long calculations, majority, mandatory penalty for murder, mental depression, method, migration, minority, mistaken ideas, mistakes, motorways, multiplicity of proceedings, mutual consolations/ recrimination, necessity, notice, objection(s), obstacle, one’s duty, outcome, outright competition, over-piety, pain, party hacks, people, person, philosopher, place(s), politician(s), possibility, problem, prosecution(s), public association, puddles, pupil, question, rage, reality, refined sugar, relegation, risky remarks, scepticism, shirkers, shock, social contracts, s.o.´s eye, speech, train, student, submission, substantial burden, taboos, taking sides, teacher, team, technicalities, temptation, tension, therapist, total fragmentation, trade union interference, trouble, truth, verbal taboos, washing-up, well-thought-out arrangements, well-to-do, word(s), writer; ADVERBS: also, always, better, carefully, continually, even, hardly, largely, moreover, narrowly, often, only, persistently, possibly, relatively easily, steadily, studiously, subsequently, surely, together, too; EXAMPLES: the rascals managed to avoid being punished; I’m not going if I can possibly avoid it; she’d do anything to avoid going there; she agreed to avoid alcohol; we have no need formally to be told to avoid ambiguities; avoid becoming ravenously hungry; she will try to avoid being thought to be a cheat, we may often avoid criticism; it is impossible to avoid exercise; the thing to avoid is ...; he was extremely careful to avoid ...; people always act in such a way as to produce pleasure and avoid pain; I cannot avoid the feeling that ...; consider what you can do to avoid this in the future; to avoid too many technicalities, we will confine the story to a small number of topics; it can be surprisingly difficult to avoid, too, because ...; in this way he continually avoids facing reality; this view avoids the necessity of explaining how ...; in this way she may well have avoided alienating herself from her parents; so far we have avoided any clarification of what is meant by ideals; the patient’s death is not an evil to be avoided at all costs; more fundamental, and not to be avoided, is the question of whether homosexual unions should be excluded; but, I would submit, these can be avoided relatively easily; but surely it can be avoided; the kinds of plant food we have mentioned are bad or are to be avoided; unpopular Party hacks were often seen as shirkers, avoiding their duty at the Front; to avoid s.o./ s.th. like the plague; to avoid s.o.'s stare/ eye; to manage to avoid the danger; you can hardly avoid visiting them; to avoid s.o. being attacked; to avoid notice; SYNONYMS: abstain, constrain, curb, deny, forgo, hold back, resist, restrict, stop, tame; evade, fence, shift, side-step; duck, escape, recoil, shun; circumvent, deflect, detour, dodge, parry, skirt, ward off; bypass; adjourn, delay, hold up, interrupt, postpone, put off, reschedule, set aside, suspend, table, waive; GERMAN: vermeiden, verhüten, meiden, aus dem Weg gehen, ausweichen, umgehen, darum herum kommen, ausweichen;
This is the entry of the previous version of ARCS:
HEADWORD: avoid v. NOUNS: heart attacks, mistakes, breathing, motorways, person, danger, accident, difficulty, duty, truth, notice; EXAMPLES: to avoid s.o./ s.th. like the plague; to avoid s.o.'s stare/ eye; to manage to avoid the danger; you can hardly avoid visiting them; to avoid s.o. being attacked; to avoid notice; SYNONYMS: abstain, constrain, curb, deny, forgo, hold back, resist, restrict, stop, tame; evade, fence, shift, sidestep; duck, escape, recoil, shun; circumvent, deflect, detour, dodge, parry, skirt, ward off; bypass; adjourn, delay, hold up, interrupt, postpone, put off, reschedule, set aside, suspend, table, waive; GERMAN: vermeiden, verhüten, meiden, aus dem Weg gehen, ausweichen, umgehen;
This is the entry in Student´s Dictionary of Collocations (BBI):
avoid v. 1. to ~ studiously 2. (G) she mamaged to avoid being punishedGo Back
