verb /əˈvɔɪd/
a) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.
The devyll [...] sayde unto hym: all these will I geve the, iff thou wilt faull doune and worship me. Then sayde Jesus unto hym. Avoyde Satan.
And therewith anone cam another knyght of the castell; and he was smyttyn so sore that he avoyded hys sadyll.
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