Avoid and Look

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Avoid

Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
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Look is an antonym for avoid.
Nearby Words: avoided, avoidance, avoidable, avoiding, avoidably

Look

Look verb - To give the impression of being.
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Avoid is an antonym for look in topics: expect, face, appear, examine visually.
Nearby Words: lookout, looked, looker, looking, lookup
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Common collocations

people avoid people look people
kind avoid kind look kind
time avoid time look time
damage avoid damage look damage
Other words: humans.

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / Haywire Mallory remains beautiful and well-kept throughout the movie, but to achieve that she is shown applying full-face makeup (To cover bruises) and tidying her hair in order to maintain that look and avoid suspicion in public.
    Source: Film / Haywire
  • Film / A Series of Unfortunate Events The reason for changing Klaus's glasses from Blind Without 'Em to a pince-nez he only wears while reading was to avoid making him look too similar to Harry Potter.
    Source: Film / A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • It is implied that she asked someone to look after her daughters in her stead to avoid Parental Abandonment issues.
    Source: Webcomic / City Of Dream
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