From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en], [en], from [fro] + [fro], from [en] < [en], ultimately
related to [en]. Displaced native [ang].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun .
2. [en] To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
3. [en] To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.
4. * [page=13]
5. * [volume=III]
6. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=June 19, 2012 | author=Phil McNulty | work=BBC Sport
|title=England 1-0 Ukraine (see
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18181971) |passage=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.}}
1. [en] To try not to do something or to have something happen.
2. * [year_published=1985]
3. [en] To make empty ; to clear .
4.. * [1395] , _[Wycliffe's Bible]_ , Ecclesiasticus 13:6 (see https://archive.org/stream/holybiblecontain03wycluoft#page/146/mode/2up) :
5. *: If thou haue, he shal lyue with thee, and AUOIDE thee out ; and he shal not sorewen vpon thee.
6. [en] To make void, to annul ; to refute (especially a contract ).
7. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1395 | title= [Wycliffe's Bible] | section= [Epistle to the Galatians] 3:17 | url=https://www.studylight.org/desk/index.cgi?rq=47003&t1=en_wyc
|passage=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.}}
1. * [page=233]
2. [en] To defeat or evade ; to invalidate .
3. * [book=III]
4. [en] To emit or throw out; to void .
5. * [chapter=Weste Indies]
6. * [chapter=Frogges, Toades, and Toad-stone]
7. [en] To leave , evacuate ; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
8. * [12.17]
9. * 1565 , [Thomas Stapleton (theologian)] (translator), _[Ecclesiastical History of the English People] . Compiled by [Bede] , Englishman_ , Antwerp, Book 5, Chapter 20, pp. 178b-179, <sup> see http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07396.0001.001 </sup>
10. *: [...] the bishop commaunded al to AUOIDE the chambre for an houre, and beganne to talke after this manner to his chaplin [...]
11. * [edition=2nd]
12. * [book=New Atlantis]
13. [en] To get rid of.
14. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1395 | title= [Wycliffe's Bible] | section= [First Epistle to the Corinthians] 13:11 | url=https://www.studylight.org/desk/index.cgi?rq=45013&t1=en_wyc
|passage=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.}}
1. * [edition=2nd]
2. * [I]
3. [en] To retire ; to withdraw, depart , go away .
4. * [Matthew]
5. * [IV]
6. * [1 Samuel]
7. [en] To become void or vacant.
**** Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund ( [en] ). See Appendix:English catenative verbs .
**** Synonyms
- [to keep away from] [en]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[to try not to be hit; to give way]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Basque: [eu]
- Catalan: [ca]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Latin: [la] [subject and object reversed]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[to keep away from]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be] ; [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] [exalted]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old English: [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] (5), [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Shan: [shn]
- Slovak: [sk] [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] ; [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] , [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[to try not to do something]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Azerbaijani: [az] [archaic]
- German: [de]
- Marathi: [mr]
[trans-bottom]
[(law) to defeat or evade; to invalidate]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Latin: [la]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
**** Further reading
- [R:OneLook]