Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Follows
Avoid is an antonym for follows in topics: trail, understand, take the place of, act in accordance with.
Both words in one sentence
- Peer has a part of the boyg inside him for the rest of his life, and constantly follows the instructions from it: "avoid it".
Source: Theatre / Peer Gynt -
In one section, Heather must avoid a strange red gas that follows her from room to room.
Source: Deadly Gas -
The album follows Beethoven as he looks back on his life of hardships, wondering what he could have done differently to avoid this confrontation.
Source: Music / Beethoven's Last Night
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