avoid

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Plain form
avoid

Third-person singular
avoids

Past tense
avoided

Past participle
avoided

Present participle
avoiding

  1. (transitive) When you avoid something, you stay away from it; you don't go near it; you shun or abstain from it.
    He avoided swimming class today. Is he sick?

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