confront, face, face up, formalize, validate

prevent, avert, minimize, stave off, forestall, sidestep, discourage, dodge, evade, mitigate, escape, eliminate, lessen, insulate, alleviate, deter, reduce, keep, dissuade, defuse, counteract, resist, stop, thwart, distract, circumvent, stem, aggravate, obviate, overcome, curb, preclude, without, eschew, downplay, tamp down, refrain, prolong, risking, protect, quell, conceal, save, instigate, deflect, steer, minimise, ignore, protract, provoke, spared, hide, neutralize, ease, erase, banish, allay, rectify, remedy, precipitate, negate, ameliorate, exacerbate, heighten, beware, relieve, cope, barring, accentuate, inoculate, warn, quash, preempt, elude, overcompensate, undo, dispel, safeguard, create, curtail, shun, atone, diffuse, extricate, involve, squelch, abstain, offset, ensue, flee, shield, confuse, befall, compensate, endure, divert, fend, assuage, inflict, justify, remove, consign, flavored, flavoured, laxative, tasting, unnecessary, excessive, rancid, stale, sugary, surplus, tasteless, unprocessed, bottled, fermented, medicinal, spiced, adulterated, canned, contaminated, ingested

abstain, break, bypass, circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, escape, eschew, evade, fudge, get around, get away, get by, get off, get out, go around, hedge, keep off, miss, ostracise, ostracize, parry, put off, save, shirk, short-circuit, shrink from, shun, shy away from, sidestep, skirt, spare, ware

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

abstain, cancel, desist, forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent, refrain

abstain from, annul, avert, debar, deflect, desist from, fend off, forbear from, head off, invalidate, keep from, keep off, nullify, obviate, quash, refrain from, stave off, void, ward off