Avoid and Help

Avoid

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

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

Help verb - To keep from happening by taking action in advance.

Usage example: they couldn't help the way things turned out

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Avoid and help are semantically related in action topic. Sometimes you can use "Avoid" instead a verb "Help", if it concerns topics such as resist.

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

people	avoid people	help people
situation	avoid situation	help situation
time	avoid time	help time
fight	avoid fight	help fight
Other words: police, anyone, humans.

He puts it to use twice in Episode 4, first to help Kanon and Nonoka avoid disciplinary action from Aki, then later by having her do his homework for him.

Source: Visual Novel / Photo Kano
The people are told the police can't do anything to help them, therefore they avoid helping them as much as possible, in-turn making it so the police can't do anything to help them.

Source: Series / Longmire
It doesn't help that the same boss also has Prominence, the strongest fire spell in the game, so if you want to avoid one you cannot avoid the other.

Source: That One Attack

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