Avoid

Definition

avoid /ǝ'vↄÇd/ v (က) ေရွာင္သည္။ Try to avoid (driving in) the rush-hour. ❍ I think he's avoiding me. ❍ She avoided my eyes (ie avoided looking into my eyes). (ခ) မျဖစ္ေအာင္တားဆီးသည္။ Try to avoid accidents. ❍ I just avoided running over the cat. ❏ avoidable adj ေရွာင္ႏိုင္တိမ္းႏိုင္ေသာ။ This sort of accident is wholly avoidable. ❏ avoidance n [U] တစ္ခုခုကို ေရွာင္ျခင္း။ tax avoidance (ie arranging one's affairs so as to pay the smallest amount of tax required by law). ❏ avoid sb/ sth like the plague [ IDM ] ( infml ) မေတြ႕ မိေအာင္၊ မလုပ္မိေအာင္ ႀကိဳးစားေရွာင္သည္။ He's been avoiding me like the plague since our quarrel.

Examples

1. Try to avoid confrontation.
2. [avoid doing something] : I want to avoid being drawn into the argument.
3. We went early to avoid the crowds.
4. Avoid that area after dark.
5. We crossed the road to avoid him.
6. [avoid doing something] : I want to avoid speaking to him until I’ve got more details.
7. When taking this medication it is advisable to avoid alcohol.
8. [avoid doing something] : Where possible
9. we have avoided using technical terms.
10. He dislikes work and will avoid it whenever he can.
11. [avoid doing something] : She’s just avoiding having to go back to work.