avoid

avoid is a Verb

Definition:

[1] To empty. [Obs.] Wyclif.

[2] To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

[3] To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from. [Obs.] Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room. Bacon.

[4] To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute. How can these grants of the king`s be avoided Spenser.

[5] To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters. What need a man forestall his date of grief. And run to meet what he would most avoid Milton. He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. Macaulay.

[6] To get rid of. [Obs.] Shak.

[7] To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant`s plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter. Blackstone.