Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Touch
Touch verb - To come into bodily contact with (something) so as to perceive a slight pressure on the skin.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Fortunately, Lava is Boiling Kool-Aid, so they don't have to avoid each other entirely, but they can never touch.
Source: Can't Have Sex, Ever - The writers have their reasons for this: not wanting to touch on iffy subjects, they purposely avoid talking about it.
Source: Offscreen Afterlife -
In the Bones episode "El Carnicero en el Coche" Hodgins lowers himself like this into the burnt out husk of a car, to avoid the car falling apart at the slightest touch whilst hunting for evidence.
Source: "Mission: Impossible" Cable Drop
Cite this Source
Touch and Avoid. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/touch
Avoid & Touch. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/touch>.
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