Avoidance

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of shunning or avoiding.
  • n. Law An annulment.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of annulling; annulment.
  • n. The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; – specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.
  • n. A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
  • n. The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
  • n. Any thing that is to be avoided
  • n. The courts by which anything is carried off.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of annulling; annulment.
  • n. The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.
  • n. A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
  • n. The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
  • n. The courts by which anything is carried off.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of annulling or making void; annulment.
  • n. The act of becoming, or the state of being, vacant; especially, the state of a benefice when it becomes void by death, deprivation, resignation, or preferment of the incumbent; vacancy.
  • n. The act of avoiding or shunning anything disagreeable or unwelcome.
  • n. A retiring from or leaving a place.
  • n. An emptying out; that by which a fluid is carried off; an outlet.
  • n. The custom which forbids one member of a family to meet or address another member. This custom is found among many primitive tribes, and relates most frequently to a man and his mother-in-law.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rejection   
    Cross Reference
    plea in avoidance    confession and avoidance   
    Hyponym
    averting    near thing    aversion    escape   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    annulment    removal    withdrawal    elusion    evasion   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    evasion    prevention    concealment    aversion    repression   
     
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