"avoiding" meaning in English

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          "text": "Have you been avoiding me? (as progressive form of avoid)"
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          "text": "I noted his carefully avoiding eye contact. (as present participle)"
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          "text": "Two classes of people she had chosen to avoid, having been driven to such avoidings by her aunt's preferences; marquises and such-like, whether wicked or otherwise, she had eschewed, and had eschewed likewise all Low Church tendencies.",
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