Avoid and Fear

Avoid

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

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

Fear verb - To experience concern or anxiety.

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Avoid and fear are semantically related in feel alarm topic. Sometimes you can use "Avoid" instead a verb "Fear".

fire	avoid fire	fear fire
wrath	avoid wrath	fear wrath
people	avoid people	fear people
death	avoid death	fear death
Other words: time, pain, danger, punishment, backlash, war, anyone, humans, consequences.

Similarly, traditional Jewish kabbalists avoid uttering the names of demons or even angels, for fear that they'll turn up, angry at being summoned by a mortal.

Source: The Scottish Trope
But in the end, her greatest fear - what she spent thirteen years doing her very best to avoid - is realized.

Source: Adult Fear / Animated Films
Of course, the Sandman said that made him better then Jordan, and the other Lanterns wound up having to learn to "remember" fear in order to avoid being overtaken by Parallax.

Source: The So-Called Coward

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