Avoid and Deliver

Avoid

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

Deliver is an antonym for avoid.

Deliver

Deliver verb - To free from the penalties or consequences of sin.

Avoid is an antonym for deliver in transfer topic.

Common collocations

attack avoid attack deliver attack
people avoid people deliver people
death avoid death deliver death
battle avoid battle deliver battle
Other words: damage, attacks.

Both words in one sentence

  • In order to avoid choking on the half-eaten carrots while trying to deliver his following lines, he would spit them out into a nearby spittoon instead.
    Source: Cue Irony
  • Read the Fine Print Taking a leaf after Swindle McSue, the Beagle Boys once tricked Scrooge into having to deliver a crateful of eggs to the Island of Ripan Taro to avoid having to give them his fortune.
  • Second Person Attack: In "Brownies for Thud Mackie", Michael is leaving camp to avoid a beating by Thud Mackie after he accidentally sits on Thud's box of brownies and fails to deliver a replacement.
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