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{
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "come to grips with"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "confront"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "deal with"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "engage"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "get to grips with"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "take the bull by the horns"
}
],
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"word": "avoid like the plague"
},
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"word": "avoidable"
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{
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"word": "avoidance"
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{
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}
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"2": "enm",
"3": "avoiden"
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"expansion": "Middle English avoiden",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "xno",
"3": "avoider"
},
"expansion": "Anglo-Norman avoider",
"name": "der"
},
{
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"2": "fro",
"3": "esvuidier",
"4": "",
"5": "to empty out"
},
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"name": "der"
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{
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},
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"name": "m"
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{
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},
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"name": "m"
},
{
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"2": "VL.",
"3": "*vocitāre"
},
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"name": "der"
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "LL.",
"3": "vocitus"
},
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"name": "der"
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{
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"1": "la",
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},
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"name": "m"
},
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "vacuus"
},
"expansion": "Latin vacuus",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "forbūgan",
"lit": "to bend away from"
},
"expansion": "Old English forbūgan (literally “to bend away from”)",
"name": "ncog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English avoiden, from Anglo-Norman avoider, Old French esvuidier (“to empty out”), from es- + vuidier, from Vulgar Latin *vocitāre < Late Latin vocitus < vocivus, ultimately related to Latin vacuus. Displaced native Old English forbūgan (literally “to bend away from”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "avoids",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "avoiding",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "avoided",
"tags": [
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"past"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
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]
}
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"expansion": "avoid (third-person singular simple present avoids, present participle avoiding, simple past and past participle avoided)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
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"a‧void"
],
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "abstain"
},
{
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "beg off"
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{
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "bypass"
},
{
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "circumvent"
},
{
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "equivocate"
},
{
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "fudge"
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{
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "funk"
},
{
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"tags": [
"UK",
"dialectal"
],
"word": "jook"
},
{
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "shirk"
},
{
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "shuffle"
},
{
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "obviate"
},
{
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "prevaricate"
},
{
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "waffle"
}
],
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"pos": "verb",
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "avoid like the plague"
},
{
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "beat around the bush"
},
{
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "dodge a bullet"
},
{
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "flee"
}
],
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{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun"
],
"id": "en-avoid-en-verb-Lem3cSEA",
"links": [
[
"try",
"try"
],
[
"meet",
"meet"
],
[
"communicate",
"communicate"
],
[
"shun",
"shun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun"
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I avoided the slap easily."
},
{
"text": "One town was flooded from the storm, while the other town avoided the storm."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To stay out of the way of (something harmful)."
],
"id": "en-avoid-en-verb-9sHQVfv8",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I try to avoid the company of gamblers."
},
{
"text": "1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 13,\nWhat need a man forestall his date of griefe\nAnd run to meet what he would most avoid?"
},
{
"ref": "1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 13, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume 3, Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, page 309",
"text": "He still hoped that he might be able to win some chiefs who remained neutral; and he carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport",
"text": "England could have met world and European champions Spain but that eventuality was avoided by Sweden's 2-0 win against France, and Rooney's first goal in a major tournament since scoring twice in the 4-2 victory over Croatia in Lisbon at Euro 2004.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from"
],
"id": "en-avoid-en-verb-3yNKVvM3",
"links": [
[
"keep",
"keep"
],
[
"clear",
"clear"
]
],
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"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "mënjanoj"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "tajannaba",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "تَجَنَّبَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "etganeb",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic"
],
"word": "اتجنب"
},
{
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "xusapʿel",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "խուսափել"
},
{
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"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "unikácʹ",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "уніка́ць"
},
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"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "ŭnikácʹ",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ўніка́ць"
},
{
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"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "uníknucʹ",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уні́кнуць"
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{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "ŭníknucʹ",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ўні́кнуць"
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{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "uxiljácca",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "ухіля́цца"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "ŭxiljácca",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ўхіля́цца"
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{
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"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "uxilícca",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "ухілі́цца"
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"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "ŭxilícca",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ўхілі́цца"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otbjagvam",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "отбягвам"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "stranja ot",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "страня от"
},
{
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"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "krany",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "ကြဉ်"
},
{
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "evitar"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bìmiǎn",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "避免"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huíbì",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "回避"
},
{
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "miǎnchú",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "免除"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "vyhnout se pf vyhýbat se"
},
{
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "vermijden"
},
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "eviti"
},
{
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"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "vältima"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "hoiduma"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "välttää"
},
{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "karttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "väistää"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "éviter"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "fuir"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "evitar"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "arideba",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "არიდება"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "acileba",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "აცილება"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "meiden"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "de",
"english": "exalted",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "fernbleiben"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "biwandjan",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "𐌱𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽"
},
{
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apofévgo",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "αποφεύγω"
},
{
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "peripheúgō",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "περιφεύγω"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "elkerül"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "kerül"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "seachain"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "evitare"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sakeru",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "避ける"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "manukareru",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "免れる"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "imu",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "斎む"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "ciəhviəng",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "ជៀសវាង"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "pihada",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "피하다"
},
{
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "kkeorida",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "꺼리다"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "līk līang",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "ຫຼີກລ້ຽງ"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "vītō"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "ēvītō"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "tūraha"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "hohoni"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "zajlsxiix",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "зайлсхийх"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "unngå"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "evitar"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "forbūgan"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "parhizidan",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "پرهیزیدن"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"alt": "5",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "unikać"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "uniknąć"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "evitar"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "evita"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "ocoli"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izbegátʹ",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "избега́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izbežátʹ",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "избежа́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uklonjátʹsja",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "уклоня́ться"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uklonítʹsja",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уклони́ться"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 70 1 0 2 1 4 7 3 3 1",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "seachain"
},
{
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"code": "shn",
"lang": "Shan",
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
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"UK",
"dialectal"
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
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"obsolete"
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "avoid like the plague"
},
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
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"To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun"
],
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[
"try",
"try"
],
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"meet",
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],
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"communicate",
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"shun",
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],
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{
"text": "I avoided the slap easily."
},
{
"text": "One town was flooded from the storm, while the other town avoided the storm."
}
],
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],
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"transitive"
]
},
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],
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{
"text": "I try to avoid the company of gamblers."
},
{
"text": "1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 13,\nWhat need a man forestall his date of griefe\nAnd run to meet what he would most avoid?"
},
{
"ref": "1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 13, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume 3, Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, page 309",
"text": "He still hoped that he might be able to win some chiefs who remained neutral; and he carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport",
"text": "England could have met world and European champions Spain but that eventuality was avoided by Sweden's 2-0 win against France, and Rooney's first goal in a major tournament since scoring twice in the 4-2 victory over Croatia in Lisbon at Euro 2004.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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[
"keep",
"keep"
],
[
"clear",
"clear"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
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]
},
{
"categories": [
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"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1395,, Wycliffe Bible, Ecclesiasticus 13:6",
"text": "If thou haue, he shal lyue with thee, and auoide thee out ; and he shal not sorewen vpon thee."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make empty; to clear."
],
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[
"empty",
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],
[
"clear",
"clear"
]
],
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],
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"transitive"
]
},
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"categories": [
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"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Law"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1395, Wycliffe Bible, Galatians 3:17",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "1596, Edmund Spenser, A View of the State of Ireland, Dublin: John Morrisson, 1809, reprint of the 1633 edition, p. 233,\n[…] how can those graunts of the Kings be avoyded, without wronging of those lords, which had those lands and lordships given them?"
}
],
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],
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"law",
"law#English"
],
[
"annul",
"annul"
],
[
"refute",
"refute"
],
[
"contract",
"contract"
]
],
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],
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"transitive"
],
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"law"
]
},
{
"categories": [
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"en:Law"
],
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],
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[
"law",
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[
"defeat",
"defeat"
],
[
"evade",
"evade"
],
[
"invalidate",
"invalidate"
]
],
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],
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"transitive"
],
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"law"
]
},
{
"categories": [
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"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "1577, Richard Eden (translator), The History of Trauayle in the West and East Indies [De Orbo Novo, Decades 1-3] by Peter Martyr d’Anghiera, London, “Of the ordinary nauigation from Spayne to the west Indies,” p. 224b,\n[…] the citie of Memi, where is a great Caue or Denne, in the whiche is a spryng or fountayne that contynually auoydeth a great quantitie of Bitumen […]"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To emit or throw out; to void."
],
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[
"emit",
"emit"
],
[
"void",
"void"
]
],
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],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
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],
"examples": [
{
"text": "1565, Thomas Stapleton (translator), The History of the Church of Englande. Compiled by Venerable Bede, Englishman, Antwerp, Book 5, Chapter 20, pp. 178b-179,\n[…] the bishop commaunded al to auoide the chambre for an houre, and beganne to talke after this manner to his chaplin […]"
},
{
"ref": "1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., “Henrie the third”, in The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles, page 202",
"text": "This yeare also was a proclamation made in London, and throughout all the realme, that all strangers should auoid the land before the feast of saint Michaell then next following except those that came with merchandize.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1627, Francis Bacon, New Atlantis, London, published c. 1658, page 7",
"text": "Whereupon six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the Room.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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"leave",
"leave"
],
[
"evacuate",
"evacuate"
],
[
"withdraw",
"withdraw"
]
],
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],
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"transitive"
]
},
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{
"ref": "1395, Wycliffe Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:11",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., “The oration of king Richard the third to the chiefteins of his armie”, in The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles, page 756",
"text": "[…] expell out of your thoughts all douts, auoid out of your minds all feare; and like valiant champions aduance foorth your standards […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away."
],
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[
"retire",
"retire"
],
[
"depart",
"depart"
],
[
"go away",
"go away"
]
],
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"(intransitive, obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away."
],
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"intransitive",
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To become void or vacant."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, obsolete) To become void or vacant."
],
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"intransitive",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
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{
"rhymes": "-ɔɪd"
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "abjure"
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"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "avert"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "dodge"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "duck"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "elude"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "escape"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "eschew"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "evade"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "evitate"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "get away from"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"tags": [
"Multicultural-London-English"
],
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "sack off"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "sidestep"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "shy away from"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "skirt"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "shun"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
"word": "steer clear"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:avoid",
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"translations": [
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "to try not to be hit; to give way",
"word": "itzuri"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to try not to be hit; to give way",
"word": "evitar"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to try not to be hit; to give way",
"word": "éviter"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to try not to be hit; to give way",
"word": "ausweichen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to try not to be hit; to give way",
"word": "elkerül"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to try not to be hit; to give way",
"word": "schivare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to try not to be hit; to give way",
"word": "evitare"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"note": "subject and object reversed",
"sense": "to try not to be hit; to give way",
"word": "desum"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to try not to be hit; to give way",
"word": "evitar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to try not to be hit; to give way",
"word": "evitar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to try not to be hit; to give way",
"word": "esquivar"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "mënjanoj"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "tajannaba",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "تَجَنَّبَ"
},
{
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "etganeb",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic"
],
"word": "اتجنب"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "xusapʿel",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "խուսափել"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "unikácʹ",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "уніка́ць"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "ŭnikácʹ",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ўніка́ць"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "uníknucʹ",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уні́кнуць"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "ŭníknucʹ",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ўні́кнуць"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "uxiljácca",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "ухіля́цца"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "ŭxiljácca",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ўхіля́цца"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "uxilícca",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "ухілі́цца"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "ŭxilícca",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ўхілі́цца"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otbjagvam",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "отбягвам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "stranja ot",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "страня от"
},
{
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "krany",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "ကြဉ်"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "evitar"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bìmiǎn",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "避免"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huíbì",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "回避"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "miǎnchú",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "免除"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "vyhnout se pf vyhýbat se"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "vermijden"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "eviti"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "vältima"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "hoiduma"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "välttää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "karttaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "väistää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "éviter"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "fuir"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "evitar"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "arideba",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "არიდება"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "acileba",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "აცილება"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "meiden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "exalted",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "fernbleiben"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "biwandjan",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "𐌱𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apofévgo",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "αποφεύγω"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "peripheúgō",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "περιφεύγω"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "elkerül"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "kerül"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "seachain"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "evitare"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sakeru",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "避ける"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "manukareru",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "免れる"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "imu",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "斎む"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "ciəhviəng",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "ជៀសវាង"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "pihada",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "피하다"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "kkeorida",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "꺼리다"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "līk līang",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "ຫຼີກລ້ຽງ"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "vītō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "ēvītō"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "tūraha"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "hohoni"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "zajlsxiix",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "зайлсхийх"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "unngå"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "evitar"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "forbūgan"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "parhizidan",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "پرهیزیدن"
},
{
"alt": "5",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "unikać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "uniknąć"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "evitar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "evita"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "ocoli"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izbegátʹ",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "избега́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izbežátʹ",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "избежа́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uklonjátʹsja",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "уклоня́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uklonítʹsja",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уклони́ться"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "seachain"
},
{
"code": "shn",
"lang": "Shan",
"roman": "ngô̰eng wāae",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "ငိူင်ႉဝႄႈ"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "vyhnúť sa pf vyhýbať sa"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "evitar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "undvika"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "lìik-lîiang",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "หลีกเลี่ยง"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "kaçınmak"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "unykáty",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "уника́ти"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "unýknuty",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уни́кнути"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "uxyljátysja",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ухиля́тися"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "uxylýtysja",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ухили́тися"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "tránh"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "tránh xa"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to keep away from",
"word": "né"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to try not to do something",
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "saqınmaq"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to try not to do something",
"word": "vermeiden"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otmenjam",
"sense": "(law) to defeat or evade; to invalidate",
"word": "отменям"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "anuliram",
"sense": "(law) to defeat or evade; to invalidate",
"word": "анулирам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(law) to defeat or evade; to invalidate",
"word": "hylätä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(law) to defeat or evade; to invalidate",
"word": "entkräften"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(law) to defeat or evade; to invalidate",
"word": "abwerten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(law) to defeat or evade; to invalidate",
"word": "abschwächen"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "(law) to defeat or evade; to invalidate",
"word": "evado"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "cuclax",
"sense": "(law) to defeat or evade; to invalidate",
"word": "цуцлах"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otmenjátʹ",
"sense": "(law) to defeat or evade; to invalidate",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "отменя́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otmenítʹ",
"sense": "(law) to defeat or evade; to invalidate",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "отмени́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "annulírovatʹ",
"sense": "(law) to defeat or evade; to invalidate",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"perfective"
],
"word": "аннули́ровать"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "(law) to defeat or evade; to invalidate",
"word": "savuşturmak"
}
],
"word": "avoid"
}
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