Thesaurus / avoid
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The executive wondered whether his employer could prevent him from taking the trip, or if he’d have to avoid returning to the office afterward.
I then made a line of small piles of ricotta stuffing, before folding over the pasta and squeezing out air pockets to avoid the raviolis bursting in the boiling water.
WITH FOOD TOURISM IN CRISIS, VIRTUAL PASTA AND PAELLA COURSES TAKE OFFBERNHARD WARNERJULY 18, 2020FORTUNE
Because of coronavirus fears, many people have switched to using credit cards and mobile payments to avoid handling money.
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The state has released about 10,000 inmates early to avoid crowding because of the pandemic, and another 8,000 could be released by August.
CALIFORNIA IS FACING A WILDFIRE FIGHTER SHORTAGE BECAUSE PRISONERS ARE GETTING SICK WITH COVIDNICOLE GOODKINDJULY 15, 2020FORTUNE
For example, it can allow households to avoid home foreclosure, evictions and car repossession.
Walkers and joggers politely cross the street to avoid proximity to each other.
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He had not estimated that if Jean Baptiste sought his wife secretly, it must have been because he wished to avoid him.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUX
But I always suspected it was a stratagem on his part to avoid playing, and that nothing really ailed him.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
But it was my only chance then; or rather I had seen enough of business to avoid making mistakes when I could.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
She stopped, and turned to face him, an incredible shyness seeming to cause her to avoid his gaze.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI
WORDS RELATED TO AVOID
- avoid
- be oblivious to
- blink
- brush off
- bury one's head in sand
- cold-shoulder
- discount
- disdain
- evade
- fail
- forget
- let it go
- look the other way
- neglect
- omit
- overlook
- overpass
- pass over
- pay no attention to
- pay no mind
- pooh-pooh
- reject
- scorn
- shut eyes to
- slight
- take no notice
- tune out
- turn back on
- turn blind eye
- turn deaf ear
- wink
- abscond
- avoid
- bail out
- blow
- bolt
- break out
- burst out
- circumvent
- cut and run
- cut loose
- decamp
- depart
- desert
- disappear
- dodge
- double
- duck
- duck out
- elope
- elude
- emerge
- evade
- flee
- fly
- fly the coop
- get away
- get away with
- get off
- give someone the slip
- go scot-free
- leave
- make a getaway
- make getaway
- make off
- make oneself scarce
- pass
- play hooky
- run
- run away
- run off
- run out on
- shun
- skip
- slip
- slip away
- steal away
- take a powder
- take flight
- take it on the lam
- take on the lam
- vanish
- work out of
- wriggle out
- abhor
- abominate
- antipathize
- avoid
- be allergic to
- be averse to
- be turned off to
- bear malice toward
- condemn
- contemn
- deplore
- despise
- detest
- disapprove
- disesteem
- disfavor
- disrelish
- eschew
- execrate
- grossed out on
- have hard feelings
- have no stomach for
- have no taste for
- have no use for
- loathe
- look down on
- lose interest in
- make faces at
- mind
- not appreciate
- not care for
- not endure
- not feel like
- not take kindly to
- object to
- regret
- resent
- scorn
- shudder at
- shun
- altercate
- argue over
- argufy
- avoid
- bicker
- blow hot and cold
- carp
- catch at straws
- cavil
- chicane
- criticize
- dispute
- equivocate
- evade
- fence
- flip-flop
- hassle
- have at it
- hem and haw
- hypercriticize
- make a big thing about
- niggle
- nit-pick
- nitpick
- paralogize
- pick to pieces
- pretend
- prevaricate
- put up an argument
- set to
- shift
- spar
- split hairs
- squabble
- talk back
- waffle
- wrangle
- altercate
- argue over
- argufy
- avoid
- bicker
- blow hot and cold
- carp
- catch at straws
- cavil
- chicane
- criticize
- dispute
- equivocate
- evade
- fence
- flip-flop
- hassle
- have at it
- hem and haw
- hypercriticize
- make a big thing about
- niggle
- nit-pick
- nitpick
- paralogize
- pick to pieces
- pretend
- prevaricate
- put up an argument
- set to
- shift
- spar
- split hairs
- squabble
- talk back
- waffle
- wrangle
- anticipate
- arrest
- avert
- avoid
- baffle
- balk
- bar
- block
- check
- chill
- cool
- cork
- counter
- counteract
- dam
- debar
- defend against
- foil
- forbid
- forestall
- forfend
- frustrate
- halt
- hamper
- head off
- hinder
- hold back
- hold off
- impede
- inhibit
- intercept
- interdict
- interrupt
- keep lid on
- limit
- nip in the bud
- obstruct
- obviate
- preclude
- prohibit
- put a stop to
- put an end to
- repress
- restrain
- restrict
- retard
- rule out
- shut out
- stave off
- stop
- thwart
- turn aside
- ward off
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.