Used in a Sentence

avoided

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for avoided.

Editorial note

This usually means that the company avoids the court case and doesn't have to repay the total tax they avoided.

Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of avoided gathered in one view.

verb

(transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.

verb

(transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.

verb

(transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for avoided.

verb

(transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.

verb

(transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.

verb

(transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful).

verb

(transitive) To try not to do something or to have something happen.

Example sentences

1

This usually means that the company avoids the court case and doesn't have to repay the total tax they avoided.

2

Distractions like this can easily be the death of a startup, and they should be avoided wherever possible.

3

Ideally though pure white background should be avoided if there's pages and pages of text to read.

4

The subliminal effect of much advertising is pernicious and cannot be entirely avoided, it seems to me.

5

Amazon has similarly avoided making profits while it can roll money back into expanding its dominance.

6

My grandma avoided it by being on an expedition at the time.

7

His argument is that he reckons that over his career he made very few bugs that could be avoided if he had used const.

8

Seem to me this list needs to incorporate how easily these bugs could have been avoided/detected/fixed, rather than just how dire the consequences were.

9

As for resumes, I always avoided sending doc files to people for fear that someone would try to edit it.

10

You could create a matrix which identifies different types of exposures and shows which can be avoided when using a given product or service.

11

I don't know about OP, but in painting and in video/film art pure black and white are encouraged to be avoided.

12

At worst they avoided a stack and made an implementation that was unoptimized in an entirely unrelated manner, not because it unimplemented anything on top.

Quote examples

1

If Javascript had "classes" earlier than ES6, perhaps the over abundance of informal adhoc "class objects" would have been completely avoided.

2

I work in the field, and while some models are based on biological structures/systems, there's a lot of fuzz about them being "based on biological foundations" that is now best avoided.

3

In the long run the trap that must be avoided is when women (usually women) leave the workforce after having children since "one parent stays at home" often means "mothers stay at home", after which they have a hard time reentering it (or have to re-qualify/take other jobs etc, which is a huge waste).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use avoided in a sentence?

This usually means that the company avoids the court case and doesn't have to repay the total tax they avoided.

What does avoided mean?

(transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.

What part of speech is avoided?

avoided is commonly used as verb.