Avoid and Live with

Avoid

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

Live with is an antonym for avoid.

Live with

Live with verb - Tolerate or accommodate oneself to.

Avoid is an antonym for live with in topics: allow, endure, submit to.

Both terms in one sentence

  • Better to Die than Be Killed Rather than be captured, and to avoid letting Chopper live with the guilt of killing his father, he chose to kill himself.
  • Survivor Guilt Her guilt drives her increasingly mad with dreams and visions of Fry, to the point she contemplates falling into an eternal slumber to avoid having to live with it.
  • Faux Yay The Mighty Boosh: After Dennis the Head Shaman catches Vince with his wife, Vince uses this to avoid getting his head cut off, and has to live with the short-term fallout.
    Source: Faux Yay
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