Avoider
to keep away from; keep clear of; shun:
to avoid a person; to avoid taxes; to avoid danger.
to prevent from happening:
to avoid falling.
law. to make void or of no effect; invalidate.
obsolete. to empty; eject or expel.
verb (transitive)
to keep out of the way of
to refrain from doing
to prevent from happening: to avoid damage to machinery
(law) to make (a plea, contract, etc) void; invalidate; quash
(obsolete) to expel
(obsolete) to depart from
v.
c.1300, from anglo-french avoider “to clear out, withdraw (oneself),” partially anglicized from old french esvuidier “to empty out,” from es- “out” (see ex-) + vuidier “to be empty,” from voide “empty, vast, wide, hollow, waste” (see void (adj.)). originally a law term; modern sense of “have nothing to do with” also was in middle english and corresponds to old french eviter with which it was perhaps confused. meaning “escape, evade” first attested 1520s. related: avoided; avoiding.
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