escape, avoid, evade, elude, shun, eschew mean to get away or keep away from something. escape stresses the fact of getting away or being passed by not necessarily through effort or by conscious …

AVOIDING definition: 1. present participle of avoid 2. to stay away from someone or something: 3. to prevent something…. Learn more.

When talking to someone, if you avoid the subject, you keep the conversation away from a particular topic. She eventually had to lock herself in the toilets to avoid him. [VERB noun] All through lunch he …

AVOID definition: to keep away from; keep clear of; shun. See examples of avoid used in a sentence.

1. to keep away from; keep clear of; shun: to avoid a person. 2. to prevent from happening: to avoid falling. 3. Law. to make void or of no effect; invalidate; annul.

to try very hard not to meet someone, do something, etc. She's been avoiding me like the plague since the party last Saturday.

To avoid is to succeed in keeping away from something dangerous or undesirable: to avoid meeting an enemy. Escape suggests encountering peril but coming through it safely: to escape drowning. 1. …