Avoid and Interlope

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

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Interlope is an antonym for avoid.

Interlope verb - To interest oneself in what is not one's concern.

Usage example: regarded the new couple as a pair of interloping parvenus who were sure to upset the town's social hierarchy

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Avoid is an antonym for interlope.

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Interlope and Avoid. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/interlope

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