avoid
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something
Her former friends now avoid her
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
Let's avoid a confrontation
Types & categories
- foreclose hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
refrain from doing something
She refrains from calling her therapist too often
Types & categories
- fiddle hyponym
Sense 4 verb
refrain from certain foods or beverages
I keep off drugs
Types & categories
- desist hypernym
Sense 5 verb
declare invalid
The contract was annulled
Types & categories
- strike down hypernym
- break hyponym
- stet hyponym
Related & opposite
- validate antonym
- nullification derivation
- invalidation derivation
- nullification derivation
- voider derivation
- nullifier derivation
- nullity derivation
- rescindable derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | face |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | avoidance |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sidestep |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | escape |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | get away |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bypass |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | stay off |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | shirk |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | shy away from |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | shun |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | obviation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | evitable |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | foreclose |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | fiddle |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | desist |
| 5 | antonym | Related & opposite | validate |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | nullification |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | invalidation |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | nullification |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | voider |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | nullifier |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | nullity |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | rescindable |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | strike down |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | break |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | stet |