If you avoid a person or thing, you keep away from them. When talking to someone, if you avoid the subject, you keep the conversation away from a. To stay away from someone or something:
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Escape, avoid, evade, elude, shun, eschew mean to get away or keep away from something. To prevent something from happening or to not allow. To make void or of no effect;.
Escape stresses the fact of getting away or being passed.
