avoid

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun. transitive
  2. To stay out of the way of (something harmful). transitive
    — I avoided the slap easily.
  3. To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from. transitive
    — I try to avoid the company of gamblers.
    Comus
  4. To try not to do something or to have something happen. transitive
    — Then he realized, by the immobility of the other children and by the way they avoided looking at him, that it was he who was selected for punishment.
  5. To make empty; to clear. obsolete,transitive
    — If thou haue, he shal lyue with thee, and auoide thee out ; and he shal not sorewen vpon thee.
  6. To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract). transitive
    — But Y seie, this testament is confermed of God; the lawe that was maad after foure hundrid and thritti yeer, makith not the testament veyn to auoide awei the biheest.
  7. To defeat or evade; to invalidate. transitive
    — […] in an action for treſpaſſing upon land whereof the plaintiff is ſeiſed, if the defendant ſhews a title to the land by deſcent, and that therefore he had a right to enter, and gives colour to the plaintiff, the plaintiff may either traverſe and totally deny the fact of the deſcent; or he may confeſs and avoid it, by replying, that true it is that ſuch deſcent happened, but that ſince the deſcent the defendant himſelf demiſed the lands to the plaintiff for term of life.
  8. To emit or throw out; to void. obsolete,transitive
    — […] the citie of Memi where is a great caue oꝛ denne in the which is a ſpꝛynge oꝛ fountayne that continually auoydethe a great quantitie of Bitumen […]
  9. To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from. obsolete,transitive
    — Anone they encountred to gyders / and he with the reed shelde smote hym soo hard that he bare hym ouer to the erthe / There with anone came another Knyght of the castel / and he was smyten so sore that he auoyded his fadel
  10. To get rid of. obsolete,transitive
    — Whanne Y was a litil child, Y spak as a litil child, Y vndurstood as a litil child, Y thouyte as a litil child; but whanne Y was maad a man, Y auoidide tho thingis that weren of a litil child.
  11. To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away. intransitive,obsolete
    — The devyll […] ſayde vnto hym: all theſe will I geve the / iff thou wilt faull doune and woꝛſhip me. Thẽ ſayde Ieſus vnto hym. Avoyd Satan.
  12. To become void or vacant. intransitive,obsolete

词形变化

avoids present,singular,third-person avoiding participle,present avoided participle,past avoided past

词汇关系

近义词
abjure avert stave off avoid dodge duck help elude escape eschew evade evitate get away from long off sack off sidestep shy away from skirt shun steer clear swerve waive
反义词
come to grips with confront deal with engage get to grips with take the bull by the horns
下位词
abstain beg off bypass circumvent equivocate fudge funk jook shirk shuffle obviate prevaricate waffle
衍生词
avoidable avoidance avoidant avoider avoidless avoid like the plague avoidment unavoided
相关词
avoid like the plague beat around the bush dodge a bullet flee ignore ostracization

词源

From Middle English avoiden, from Anglo-Norman avoider, Old French esvuidier (“to empty out”), from es- + vuidier, from Vulgar Latin *vocitāre < Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately related to Latin vacuus. Displaced native Old English forbūgan (literally “to bend away from”).
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