Avoid and Promote

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Avoid

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

Promote

Promote verb - To move higher in rank or position.
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Avoid is an antonym for promote.
Nearby Words: promotion, promoter, promoting, promo, promotional
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Common collocations

violence avoid violence promote violence
work avoid work promote work
people avoid people promote people
kind avoid kind promote kind
Other words: fight.

Both words in one sentence

  • Discworld / Small Gods He concludes they should promote him to subdeacon as soon as possible to avoid this.
    Source: Discworld / Small Gods
  • Literature / Star Wars: Tarkin Crest apparently manages to avoid execution by successfully capturing Sugi crime lord Faazah's warehouse, which not only makes Vader spare his life, but promote him.
    Source: Literature / Star Wars: Tarkin
  • Bill Cosby was so disgusted with it that rather than promote it, he implored people to avoid it.
    Source: Box Office Bomb / I Through R
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