(a.) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
(a.) To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.
(a.) To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
(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.
(a.) To get rid of.
(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.
(v. i.) To retire; to withdraw.
(v. i.) To become void or vacant.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Zayani reportedly cited the political sensitivity of naturalising Sunni expatriates and wanted to avoid provoking the opposition," the embassy said.
(2) The catheter must be meticulously fixed to the skin to avoid its movement.
(3) Sample processing appears effective in avoiding spontaneous oxalogenesis.
(4) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(5) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(6) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(7) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(8) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
(9) The UK's standard position on ICC indictees is to avoid all contact unless "essential".
(10) This death toll represents 25% of avoidable adult deaths in developing countries.
(11) Surgical removal was avoided without complications by detaching it with a ring stripper.
(12) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
(13) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
(14) This method avoids disturbance of the cellular metabolism.
(15) We determined to further clarify the mechanism of this transmural coronary "steal" employing intracoronary DP administration, thereby avoiding systemic hypotension.
(16) Maintenance therapy was always steroid-free to start with (cyclosporin+azathioprine) but in almost one half of our oldest survivors, it failed to avoid rejection and we had to add low-dose oral steroids for at least several months.
(17) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(18) Long-distanced urethrocystopexy which permits to avoid an unwanted increase of outflow resistance with following retention of urine should be preferred.
(19) We conclude that mortality rates in the elderly could be improved by encouraging elective surgery and avoiding diagnostic laparatomy in patients with incurable surgical disease.
(20) The labia minora as a pedicle graft avoids the problems encountered by conventional methods.
Bluebeard
Definition:
(n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three productions that had been scheduled for later this season are being scrapped: Johann Christian Bach's Endimione, Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
(2) This is an all-too-typical attitude when it comes to Plath: that outsiders know better, maybe even feel more, than those she left behind, especially Hughes, who is often restyled as the Bluebeard of English literature.
(3) His work in opera is quite limited to date – he is currently working at the Coliseum on ENO’s forthcoming Tristan and Isolde , which opens in June, but his previous experience consists of half a dozen shows, two for ENO – Birtwistle’s Punch and Judy at the Young Vic , and Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle in the main house – together with Carmen for Opera North , Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna in Manchester and Pelléas et Melisande and Die Zauberflöte elsewhere in Europe.
(4) In 2009, he directed Bartok’s only opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, at the Coliseum and is currently directing Tristan and Isolde for ENO, opening in June.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Clive Bayley and Michaela Martens in Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, directed by Daniel Kramer at ENO in 2009.
(6) Although Chabrol identified himself more with the latter, he was obviously attracted by the Paul characters: psychopathic serial killers such as the outwardly benign butcher Popaul (Jean Yanne) in Le Boucher (The Butcher, 1970), the mild hatter (Michel Serrault) in Les Fantômes du Chapelier (The Hatter's Ghost, 1982), Landru (Bluebeard, 1962) and the motorcyclist who brings love and death in Les Bonnes Femmes (1960).