Avoid and Despise

Avoid

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

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Despise and avoid are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Despise" instead a verb "Avoid".

Despise verb - To dislike strongly.

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Avoid and despise are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Avoid" instead a verb "Despise".

I try to avoid using any nicknames, since I despise most of the abbreviations of my name.

Source: Just For Fun / What Are the Contributors' Real Names?
The Horned King doesn't actively despise animals, but they instinctively avoid him or go mad in his presence.

Source: Fanfic / Hope For The Heartless
The war is so brutal and pointless that literally the only way for those fighting it to avoid coming to despise Earth is to die before they get that far.

Source: Nightmare Fuel / Tabletop Games

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