Definition of avoid

"avoid" in the verb sense

1. avoid

stay clear from keep away from keep out of the way of someone or something

"Her former friends now avoid her"

2. debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, avoid, ward off

prevent the occurrence of prevent from happening

"Let's avoid a confrontation"

"head off a confrontation"

"avert a strike"

3. avoid

refrain from doing something

"She refrains from calling her therapist too often"

"He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"

4. keep off, avoid

refrain from certain foods or beverages

"I keep off drugs"

"During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"

5. invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid, nullify

declare invalid

"The contract was annulled"

"void a plea"

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Quotations for avoid

Avoid neglect. [ Periander ]

Avoid exaggeration in discourse. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others. [ Horace Mann ]

What need a man forestall his date of grief,
And run to meet what he would most avoid? [ Milton ]

Avoid extremes, and shun the fault of such
Who still are pleased too little or too much. [ Pope ]

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation. [ Bruyere ]

Avoid as much as possible multiplicity of business. [ Bishop Wilson ]

The way to avoid great faults, is to beware of less. [ Proverb ]

He leaps into a deep river to avoid a shallow brook. [ Proverb ]

It is easier to avoid a fault than acquire perfection. [ Proverb ]

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve. [ Cato ]

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory: nothing so expensive as glory. [ Sydney Smith ]

It is good to see in the misfortunes of others what we should avoid. [ Syrus ]

It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous. [ Chamfort ]

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. [ Cicero ]

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass. [ Rabelais ]

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument. [ Dr. Watts ]

Wise men sometimes avoid the world, that they may not be surfeited with it. [ La Bruyere ]

The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections. [ Addison ]

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth. [ Carlyle ]

Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least. [ Stanislaus ]

Avoid all exaggeration, and be sober, modest, and truthful in all your observations. [ G. Mogridge ]

A bachelor seeks a wife to avoid solitude; a married man seeks society to avoid the tête-à-tête. [ De Varennes ]

Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest him. [ Lavater ]

It does not depend upon us to avoid poverty, but it does depend upon us to make that poverty respected. [ Voltaire ]

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Avoid law suits beyond all things; they influence your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. [ La Bruyere ]

Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be found more real happiness than kings or their favorites enjoy in palaces. [ Horace ]

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigour to our moral nature. [ Ward Beecher ]

Beware of him who meets you with a friendly mien, and, in the midst of a cordial salutation, seeks to avoid your glance. [ Lavater ]

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of every thing. [ Sydney Smith ]

The way to avoid the imputation of impudence is not to be ashamed of what we do, but never to do what we ought to be ashamed of. [ Cicero ]

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind. [ Fenelon ]

What the poet has to cultivate above all things is love and truth; - what he has to avoid, like poison, is the fleeting and the false. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Avoid an inquisitive person, for he is sure to be a gossip; ears always open to hear will not keep faithfully what is intrusted to them. [ Horace ]

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul. [ Epictetus ]

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest. [ Johnson ]

Two things should always be aimed at in our apparel - neatness and decency; but we should avoid an effeminate spruceness, as much as a fantastic disorder. [ J. Beaumont ]

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. [ Colton ]

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish. [ Cicero ]

Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way. [ Saadi ]

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. Rut to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing. [ Hume ]

To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil. [ Aristotle ]

Just to be good, to keep life pure from degrading elements, to make it constantly helpful in little ways to those who are touched by it, to keep one's spirit always sweet and avoid all manner of petty anger and irritability, - that is an ideal as noble as it is difficult. [ Edward Howard Griggs ]

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world, - to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second. [ Swift ]

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applause of the public. [ Addison ]

Society is but the contest of a thousand little opposite interests - an eternal contest between all the vanities that clash with each other, wounded, humiliated the one by the other, and which expiate tomorrow in the disgust of a defeat the triumph of today. To live in solitude, to avoid being crushed in the surging throng, is what the world calls being a nonentity - to have no existence. Poor, miserable humanity! [ Chamfort ]

avoid in Scrabble®

The word avoid is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters avoid:

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avoid in Words With Friends™

The word avoid is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters avoid:

AVOID
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Words within the letters of avoid

2 letter words in avoid (4 words)

3 letter words in avoid (4 words)

4 letter words in avoid (3 words)

5 letter words in avoid (1 word)

avoid + 1 blank (1 word)

Words containing the sequence avoid

Words that end with avoid (1 word)

Word Growth involving avoid

Shorter words in avoid

id void

Longer words containing avoid

avoidable unavoidable unavoidableness

avoidably unavoidably

avoidance avoidances

avoidant

avoided unavoided

avoider avoiders

avoiding

avoidless

avoids

unavoidability