Avoid and Avoidance

Avoid

Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.

Avoidance and avoid are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Avoidance" instead a noun "Avoid".

Avoidance

Avoidance noun - The act or a means of getting or keeping away from something undesirable.

Avoid and avoidance are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Avoid" instead a noun "Avoidance".

Nearby Words: avoid, avoided, avoidable, avoiding
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