Avoid and Trash

Avoid

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

Trash and avoid are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Trash" instead a verb "Avoid".

Trash

Trash verb - To criticize harshly and usually publicly.

Avoid and trash are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Avoid" instead a verb "Trash".

Nearby Words: trashed, trashy, trashing

Mutual synonyms

Common collocations

attack avoid attack trash attack
people avoid people trash people
time avoid time trash time

Both words in one sentence

  • Trash Landing A Running Gag in The Fighter has Dickie constantly jumping out a second story window into a trash heap to avoid his family catching him in a crack house.
    Source: Trash Landing
  • Series / Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide Moze tries trash-talking in volleyball in Dutch to avoid getting penalized for foul language.
  • In the last chapter, Naegi and Kirigiri climb a ladder going up several storeys out of the trash dump, but she choses to go second to avoid this.
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