Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Crop up
Crop up verb - To come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly.
Both terms in one sentence
-
And in the second game, these sometimes crop up when Kazuma has to avoid some damaging move, tying in with Press X to Not Die.
Source: Video Game / Yakuza -
In episode 8 he asks the gods to let him not fall in love with her to avoid the problems that would crop up if they were to develop a relationship.
Source: Manga / Gingitsune
Cite this Source
Crop up and Avoid. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/crop_up
Avoid & Crop up. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/crop_up>.
Crop up or Avoid. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/crop_up.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "avoid" and "crop up" have occurred on timeline