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.
Suggested Answers:
- MISS
- DUCK
- DODGE
- ELUDE
- AVERT
- SHUN
- EVADE
- NOTDO
- ESCHEW
- SKIRT
- STEERCLEAR
- BYPASS
- SIDESTEP
- KEEPOFF
- SHIRK
- SPURN
- FIGHTSHYOF
- ESCAPE
- PREVENT
- HEDGE
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