Avoid and Wade

Avoid

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

Wade is an antonym for avoid.

Wade

Wade verb - Walk (through relatively shallow water).

Avoid is an antonym for wade in plod topic.

Nearby Words: waded, wading

Common collocations

violence avoid violence wade violence
time avoid time wade time

Both words in one sentence

  • Series / River Monsters Don't wade into an arapaima nest either if you want to avoid being hit by several hundred pounds of solid bone and muscle.
  • Film / Drillbit Taylor Faux Affably Evil: Filkins puts on this air when he's around adults so as to avoid punishment for bullying Wade, Ryan and Emmit and other students he bullied in the past.
  • DCU villain General Wade Eiling was originally a very clever villain but was reduced to this when he transferred his brain patterns to a Shaggy Man body to avoid dying of cancer.
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