English Dictionary

avoid

IPA（発音記号）

/əˈvɔɪd/

動詞

他動詞 廃用 自動詞

(transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun / (transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful). / to keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from

日本語の意味

～を避ける、回避する。特に、ある人物との接触や有害なものから身を守るために近づかないようにすること。

After their argument, she began to avoid him at work, taking long routes to her desk.

口論の後、彼女は職場で彼を避けるようになり、自分の席に行くときは遠回りをするようになった。

意味（1）

(transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun

意味（2）

(transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful).

I avoided the slap easily.

意味（3）

to keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from

I try to avoid the company of gamblers.

意味（4）

To try not to do something or to have something happen

Then he realized, by the immobility of the other children and by the way they avoided looking at him, that it was he who was selected for punishment.

意味（5）

(transitive, obsolete) To make empty; to clear.

If thou haue, he shal lyue with thee, and auoide thee out ; and he shal not sorewen vpon thee.

意味（6）

(transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).

But Y seie, this testament is confermed of God; the lawe that was maad after foure hundrid and thritti yeer, makith not the testament veyn to auoide awei the biheest.

意味（7）

(transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate.

[…] in an action for trespassing upon land whereof the plaintiff is seised, if the defendant shews a title to the land by descent, and that therefore he had a right to enter, and gives colour to the plaintiff, the plaintiff may either traverse and totally deny the fact of the descent; or he may confess and avoid it, by replying, that true it is that such descent happened, but that since the descent the defendant himself demised the lands to the plaintiff for term of life.

意味（8）

(transitive, obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void.

[…] the citie of Memi, where is a great Caue or Denne, in the whiche is a spryng or fountayne that contynually auoydeth a great quantitie of Bitumen […]

意味（9）

(transitive, obsolete) To get rid of.

Whanne Y was a litil child, Y spak as a litil child, Y vndurstood as a litil child, Y thouyte as a litil child; but whanne Y was maad a man, Y auoidide tho thingis that weren of a litil child.

意味（10）

(intransitive, obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.

The devyll[…]sayde to hym: all these will I geue ye, if thou wilt faull doune and worship me. Then sayde Iesus unto hym. Avoyd Satan.

意味（11）

(intransitive, obsolete) To become void or vacant.

avoids （ present singular third-person ）

avoiding （ participle present ）

avoided （ participle past ）

avoided （ past ）