Avoid and Get past

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

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

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Avoid and get past are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Avoid" instead a verb "Get past".

The characters need to get past a horde of zombies, and do so by acting like zombies to avoid drawing attention.

Source: Film / Shaun of the Dead
Of course, some attacks get past Sensemove (such as Metroid Queen's flames) by having simply too large/lasting of hitboxes to avoid.

Source: One-Hit-Point Wonder
If you avoid the fight with the baby dragon you'll be able to recruit a friendly dragon in the second game, kill the baby and you've got to fight an adult dragon to get past.

Source: Our Dragons Are Different / Video Games

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