Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Encountered is an antonym for avoid.
Encountered
Both words in one sentence
- Skippable Boss: A boss that is encountered normally but has a way to avoid fighting it.
Source: Optional Boss -
One of the abomination encountered writhes, crawls and contorts his body so inhumanely quick that it manages to easily avoid the player's attempts to shoot it.
Source: Abnormal Limb Rotation Range - Fake American: In-universe example, as Sharpe always pretends to be American to avoid anti-British prejudice when encountered alone by potential enemies.
Source: Literature / Sharpe
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