Avoid and Embrace

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Avoid

Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Usage example: trying to avoid writing thank-you notes for the gifts he didn't like
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Embrace is an antonym for avoid.
Nearby Words: avoided, avoidance, avoidable, avoiding, avoidably

Embrace

Embrace verb - To put one's arms around and press tightly.
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Synonyms for Embrace
Antonyms for Embrace
Avoid is an antonym for embrace.
Nearby Words: embraced, embracing
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Common collocations

violence avoid violence embrace violence
fate avoid fate embrace fate
death avoid death embrace death
pain avoid pain embrace pain

Both words in one sentence

  • Some claim that they are merely only genderbents of each other to avoid having their fanfictions labeled as Twincest (and thus it's selfcest instead), while others are eager to embrace the twincestiness that comes with them.
    Source: Not Blood Siblings aka: Not Blood Related
  • Film / What Dreams May Come Anywhere but Their Lips: When Christy and his daughter in the shape of a grown up Asian woman embrace, he only kisses her on the forehead to avoid any awkwardness audience reaction.
    Source: Film / What Dreams May Come
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