refrain from certain foods or beverages; "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"
prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
refrain from doing something; "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"
declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her"
CIRCUMVENT
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"
surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna"
EVADE
escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"
practice evasion; "This man always hesitates and evades"
Dodges
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid; "The con man always evades"
IGNORE
be ignorant of or in the dark about
give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors"
bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances"
refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting"
fail to notice
OMIT
leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
SHUNT
implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body
a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt"
transfer to another track, of trains
provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt
SKIRT
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property"
pass around or about; move along the border; "The boat skirted the coast"
form the edge of
a garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women
cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist
informal terms for a (young) woman
(Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar