избегать

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Russian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic избѣгати (izběgati). By surface analysis, из- (iz-) +‎ бе́гать (bégatʹ) +‎ -а́ть (-átʹ).

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избега́ть (izbegátʹimpf (perfective избежа́ть or избе́гнуть)

  1. to avoid, to refrain from
    избега́ть дубли́рования уси́лийizbegátʹ dublírovanija usílijto avoid duplication of efforts
    • 1860, Иван Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev], “Глава 15”, in Первая любовь; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., First Love, 1897:
      Меня́ Зинаи́да избега́ла: моё появле́ние — я не мог э́того не заме́тить — производи́ло на неё впечатле́ние неприя́тное.
      Menjá Zinaída izbegála: mojó pojavlénije — ja ne mog étovo ne zamétitʹ — proizvodílo na nejó vpečatlénije neprijátnoje.
      Zinaïda avoided me; my presence—I could not help noticing it—affected her disagreeably.
    • 2001, Борис Акунин [Boris Akunin], “Часть первая. Блюдитеся псов. I. Смерть Загуляя”, in Пелагия и белый бульдог, Москва: АСТ; English translation from Andrew Bromfield, transl., Pelagia & the White Bulldog, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006:
      Еди́нственный род чте́ния, кото́рого влады́ка избега́л, почита́я малополе́зным, была́ беллетри́стика.
      Jedínstvennyj rod čténija, kotórovo vladýka izbegál, počitája malopoléznym, bylá belletrístika.
      The only kind of reading that the reverend bishop avoided and considered of little value was fiction.
  2. to keep off, to steer clear of, to shun, to evade, to elude
  3. to escape
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Etymology 2

из- (iz-) +‎ бе́гать (bégatʹ)

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избе́гать (izbégatʹpf

  1. (transitive, colloquial) to run (many places), to run about, to run all over
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