Avoid crossword clue 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 letters

We’ve assembled reliable answer choices for “Avoid” from crosswords that featured the same clue. These are entries that successfully completed similar puzzles without error.

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Synonyms and Definitions

MISS

• Synonyms: drop, escape, fille, girl, lack, leave out, lose, misfire, missy, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit, young lady, young woman

DUCK

• Synonyms: circumvent, dip, dodge, douse, ducks egg, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt

DODGE

• Synonyms: contrivance, dodging, duck, scheme, stratagem
• Definition: a complex or misleading plan designed to trick or avoid

ELUDE

• Synonyms: bilk

AVERT

• Synonyms: debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, turn away, ward off

SHUN

• Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, eschew, ostracise, ostracize

ESCHEW

• Synonyms: shun

SKIRT

• Synonyms: annulus, bird, border, chick, dame, doll, environ, ring, surround, wench

BYPASS

• Synonyms: beltway, electrical shunt, get around, go around, ring road, ringway, short-circuit, shunt

SHIRK

• Synonyms: fiddle, goldbrick, shrink from

SPURN

• Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, turn down

ESCAPE

• Synonyms: break away, break loose, bunk, escape cock, escape valve, escapism, evasion, flight, fly the coop, get away, get by, get off, get out, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, leak, leakage, miss, outflow, relief valve, run, run away, safety valve, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail

PREVENT

• Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, forestall, keep, preclude

HEDGE

• Synonyms: hedge in, hedgerow, hedging