Words and phrases whose definition contains avoid: (135 results)
beat, blate, box, break, bunk, clinch, date, dodge, doom, duck, fell, flit, fudge, ground, guard, hearts, hedge, hedged, light, loose, pain, ruse, save, search, shirk, shun, shy, skimmed, skirt, skulk, slack, spread, thronged
abstruse, bashful, blind trust, bypass, closing, copley, elude, eschew, evade, fairlead, felled seam, fiddle, furtive, goldbrick, lie low, lurking, packed cells, parry, prudence, put off, safe sex, scrimshank, shrink from, shuffle, sidestep, skimming, skulking, sneaky, stand back, stealthy, trip-up
abience, absconder, abscondment, anaphor, artifice, capital, circumvent, confusion, converso, decampment, discreetness, discretion, dovishness, fly-by-night, get around, gloss over, go around, john copley, malinger, marrano, name-dropping, nonsmoker, ostracise, ostracize, painfulness, peace process, short-circuit, skate over, skimp over, slur over, smooth over, soft money, stay away, sub rosa, temptation, tyramine, weasel word
acknowledgement, black maria, circumspection, cleopatra, designer drug, economise, economize, keep one's distance, moderator, nonsmoking car, shy away from, stipulation, surreptitious, water hazard, weasel-worded
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