| ward off | | |
| v. (social) | 1. avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off | prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening.; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike" |
| ~ foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent, forbid | keep from happening or arising; make impossible.; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project" |
| v. (competition) | 2. ward off | avert, turn away, or repel.; "Ward off danger" |
| ~ defend | be on the defensive; act against an attack. |
| elude | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. bilk, elude, evade | escape, either physically or mentally.; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation" |
| ~ escape, get away, break loose | run away from confinement.; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison" |
| v. (stative) | 2. elude, escape | be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by.; "What you are seeing in him eludes me" |
| ~ baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, amaze, stupefy, gravel, vex, pose, stick, beat, get | be a mystery or bewildering to.; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" |
| ~ resist, defy, refuse | elude, especially in a baffling way.; "This behavior defies explanation" |
| v. (communication) | 3. circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, 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" |
| ~ beg | dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted.; "beg the question"; "beg the point in the discussion" |
| ~ quibble | evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections. |
| ~ avoid | stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something.; "Her former friends now avoid her" |
| evade | | |
| v. (social) | 1. evade | practice evasion.; "This man always hesitates and evades" |
| ~ act, move | perform an action, or work out or perform (an action).; "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel" |
| v. (communication) | 2. evade | use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid.; "The con man always evades" |
| ~ get away, escape, get by, get off, get out | escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action.; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities" |
| get around | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. break, get around, get out | be released or become known; of news.; "News of her death broke in the morning" |
| ~ disclose, divulge, let on, expose, give away, let out, reveal, unwrap, discover, bring out, break | make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret.; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" |
| ~ leak out, leak | be leaked.; "The news leaked out despite his secrecy" |
| v. (communication) | 2. bypass, get around, go around, short-circuit | avoid something unpleasant or laborious.; "You cannot bypass these rules!" |
| ~ avoid | stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something.; "Her former friends now avoid her" |
| v. (social) | 3. get around, swing | be a social swinger; socialize a lot. |
| ~ socialise, socialize | take part in social activities; interact with others.; "He never socializes with his colleagues"; "The old man hates to socialize" |
| v. (motion) | 4. get about, get around | move around; move from place to place.; "How does she get around without a car?" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| shun | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. eschew, shun | avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of. |
| ~ avoid | stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something.; "Her former friends now avoid her" |
| v. (social) | 2. ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun | expel from a community or group. |
| ~ expel, kick out, throw out | force to leave or move out.; "He was expelled from his native country" |
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