Avoid and Dig

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Avoid

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

Dig

Dig verb - To hollow out or form (something) by removing earth.
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Avoid is an antonym for dig in understand topic.
Nearby Words: digging, digged
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Common collocations

trap avoid trap dig trap
bullets avoid bullets dig bullets

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  • Comic Book / The Clone Saga This was writer Howard Mackie’s dig at the notion that Ben could dye his hair blond to avoid identification.
    Source: Comic Book / The Clone Saga
  • Digging to China In one episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog, Courage dig a hole to China in order to avoid a monster.
    Source: Digging to China
  • Bloody Murder The dragon Fafnir of Norse Mythology had corrosive blood in some versions of the story, and this required Sigurd to dig a pit to catch the blood in order to avoid being killed by it.
    Source: Bloody Murder
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