Avoid and Bring

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Avoid

Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
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Antonyms for Avoid
Bring is an antonym for avoid.
Nearby Words: avoided, avoidance, avoidable, avoiding, avoidably

Bring

Bring verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).
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Synonyms for Bring
Antonyms for Bring
Avoid is an antonym for bring in topics: cause, transport or accompany, command a price, file charges in court.
Nearby Word: bringing
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Common collocations

attention avoid attention bring attention
people avoid people bring people
death avoid death bring death
destruction avoid destruction bring destruction
Other words: time, pain, war.

Both words in one sentence

  • Lawyer-Friendly Cameo In Night Probe (part of the Dirk Pitt Adventures), the British bring one of their old spies out of retirement, who had changed his name to Brian Shaw to avoid assassination attempts.
    Source: Lawyer-Friendly Cameo
  • If you want to avoid an argument do not, under any circumstances, bring up who Sonic characters should be dating.
    Source: Broken Base / Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Video Game / Max Payne He later lets himself be robbed by a bunch of favela gangbangers to avoid the attention a gunfight might bring.
    Source: Video Game / Max Payne
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