Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Box
Box verb - To deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner.
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Synonyms for Box
Nearby Word: boxed
Common collocations
| humans | avoid humans | box humans |
Both words in one sentence
- Meister suggests that Horace avoid actively changing what he sees in the box, and Horace tries to avoid it.
Source: Literature / The Keepers -
The American release of Storytelling covers up a sexual encounter with a giant orange box in order to avoid an NC-17 rating.
Source: Censor Box -
Mentioned when Homer is about to box Drederick Tatum; Bart tells him to make sure he gets hit an even number of times to avoid amnesia.
Source: Easy Amnesia
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