Avoid

1. v. i. To become void or vacant.
2. a. To empty.
3. a. To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
4. a. To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.
5. a. To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
6. a. 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.
7. a. To get rid of.
8. a. 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.
9. v. i. To retire; to withdraw.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.