Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Deliver
Deliver verb - To free from the penalties or consequences of sin.
Common collocations
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 -
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.
Source: Read the Fine Print - 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.
Source: Series / Salute Your Shorts
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