Crossword-Solution: AVOID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Avoid | a. | To empty. |
| Avoid | a. | To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions. |
| Avoid | a. | To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from. |
| Avoid | a. | To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute. |
| Avoid | a. | To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters. |
| Avoid | a. | To get rid of. |
| Avoid | a. | To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter. |
| Avoid | v. i. | To retire; to withdraw. |
| Avoid | v. i. | To become void or vacant. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AVOID (5)
Daughter of God and Man, immortal _Eve_, For such thou art, from sin and blame entire: Not diffident of thee do I dissuade Thy absence from my sight, but to avoid Th’ attempt it self, intended by our Foe.
One day an old hound said to him: “Why do you make such an exhibition of yourself? That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill mannered dog.” Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.
Such was his cunning, that we used to call him, among ourselves, “the snake.” When we were at work in the cornfield, he would sometimes crawl on his hands and knees to avoid detection, and all at once he would rise nearly in our midst, and scream out, “Ha, ha! Come, come! Dash on, dash on!” This being his mode of attack, it was never safe to stop a single minute.
They had seemed to avoid her ever since Carl Linstrum’s arrival, four weeks ago that day, and she hurried to the door to welcome them.
But a resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Quotes with AVOID (3)
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeem…
Pain is inevitable in life; you can’t avoid it. You can only feel it. Realize its true nature without emotional attachment and then transcend yourself and your emotions beyond that level. Pain will not go away, but you find that it is not hurting you that much.
You may avoid the risk of a car accident if you avoid driving, but you will lose the joy and freedom of driving.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 481 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).