Avoid and Forbid

Avoid

Avoid verb - To put an end to by formal action.

Usage example: asked the court to avoid the contract because it was signed under duress

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

Forbid verb - To order not to do or use or to be done or used.

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Avoid and forbid are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Avoid" instead a verb "Forbid".

contact	avoid contact	forbid contact
people	avoid people	forbid people
kind	avoid kind	forbid kind
marriage	avoid marriage	forbid marriage
Other words: capture, killing, anyone, humans.

Bilbo jokes that Seward went so far as to forbid the Gang of Three from using the coins that bear Lincoln's visage to avoid any connection between them and the president.

Source: Film / Lincoln
Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Deconstructed with Robin, who only kept the child conceived by her gang-rape because her devoutly Catholic mother forbid her to abort.

Source: Series / Top Of The Lake
Dirty Coward: Everyone who tries to offload the decision onto somebody else fits this to a certain extent, but the Prime Minister takes the cake; when asked directly to authorize or forbid the strike, he comes back telling them to "do everything they can to avoid civilian casualties".

Source: Film / Eye in the Sky

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