IPA(key): /əˈvɔɪdɪd/ <span class="searchmatch">avoided</span> simple past and past participle of <span class="searchmatch">avoid</span>...
invalid; voidable. Capable of being <span class="searchmatch">avoided</span>, shunned, or escaped. The minister confessed that many of the deaths were <span class="searchmatch">avoidable</span>. (capable of being vacated):...
/əˈvɔɪdɪŋ/ <span class="searchmatch">avoiding</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">avoid</span> Have you been <span class="searchmatch">avoiding</span> me? (as progressive form of <span class="searchmatch">avoid</span>) I noted his carefully <span class="searchmatch">avoiding</span> eye contact...
<span class="searchmatch">avoided</span> like the plague simple past and past participle of <span class="searchmatch">avoid</span> like the plague....
<span class="searchmatch">avoided</span> like the plague) (simile) To evade or shun, if at all possible. Cliché should be <span class="searchmatch">avoided</span> like the plague. I’m one of those people who <span class="searchmatch">avoids</span> confrontations...
From <span class="searchmatch">avoid</span> + -er. Rhymes: -ɔɪdə(ɹ) <span class="searchmatch">avoider</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">avoiders</span>) One who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. One who avoids...
From <span class="searchmatch">avoidable</span> + -ly. <span class="searchmatch">avoidably</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">avoidably</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">avoidably</span>) In a manner so as to be <span class="searchmatch">avoidable</span>. The cars were parked as avoidably...
c. 1850 <span class="searchmatch">avoidable</span> + -ity <span class="searchmatch">avoidability</span> (uncountable) The possibility of <span class="searchmatch">avoiding</span>; the state or condition of being <span class="searchmatch">avoidable</span>. 1971, John Yin, Sino-Soviet...
way of (something harmful). I <span class="searchmatch">avoided</span> the slap easily. One town was flooded from the storm, while the other town <span class="searchmatch">avoided</span> the storm. to keep away from;...
<span class="searchmatch">avoiders</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">avoider</span> oversaid...