Avoid and Down on

Avoid

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

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

Down on

Definitions of Avoid not found.

Avoid and down on are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Avoid" instead a verb "Down on".

Mutual synonyms

Both terms in one sentence

  • Video Game / Braid This has an implied justification to avoid a paradox, as well as to clamp down on the alternate view of what happened.
  • Antepiece In Gyro Man's stage, there's these flying spiky dudes that fall down on you, but you kinda have a lot of space to avoid them so it's not really a big deal.
    Source: Antepiece
  • Literature / Two Percent Power Pragmatic Villainy: Sight tries to avoid too heinous of crimes because he knows that it will bring the police down on him no matter how big of bribes he gives them.
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