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avoided 音标拼音: [əv'ɔɪdəd] [əv'ɔɪdɪd] pp. 避免了 避免了 Avoid \ A* void"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Avoided}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Avoiding}.] [ OF. esvuidier, es ( L. ex) vuidier, voidier, to empty. See { Void}, a.] 1. To empty. [ Obs.] -- Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions. [ Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute. [ 1913 Webster] How can these grants of the king' s be avoided? -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 5. 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. [ 1913 Webster] What need a man forestall his date of grief. And run to meet what he would most avoid ? -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 6. To get rid of. [ Obs.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 7. ( Pleading) 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. -- Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: To escape; elude; evade; eschew. Usage: To { Avoid}, { Shun}. Avoid in its commonest sense means, to keep clear of, an extension of the meaning, to withdraw one' s self from. It denotes care taken not to come near or in contact; as, to avoid certain persons or places. Shun is a stronger term, implying more prominently the idea of intention. The words may, however, in many cases be interchanged. [ 1913 Webster] No man can pray from his heart to be kept from temptation, if the take no care of himself to avoid it. -- Mason. [ 1913 Webster] So Chanticleer, who never saw a fox, Yet shunned him as a sailor shuns the rocks. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster]
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