"avoid" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

avoid verbo

avoid + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 481
avoid confusion • avoid contact • avoid conflict • avoid confrontation • avoid detection • avoid exposure • avoid capture • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 103
(13) tax, taxation, tariff
Kolokacji: 3
(17) area, road, repair, airspace
Kolokacji: 4
(28) delay, blackout, interruption
Kolokacji: 3
(30) criticism, fire, gunfire
Kolokacji: 3
(33) violence, predation, unrest
Kolokacji: 3
(38) thing, effect
Kolokacji: 2
(40) fate, weakness
Kolokacji: 2
(41) booth, tobacco, Burns
Kolokacji: 3
(45) danger, risk, hazard
Kolokacji: 3
(48) layoff, closure
Kolokacji: 2
1. desire to avoid = pragnienie by uniknąć desire to avoid
  • The desire to avoid controversy is everywhere in corporate America.
  • In others, the desire to save money and avoid responsibility obviously comes into play.
  • In addition to their desire to avoid police notice, there was no real hurry.
  • More likely than not, this was due to the agency's desire to avoid negative press.
  • He said no one from the Bush camp had mentioned a desire to avoid a floor fight to him.
  • His new stance seemed to reflect a desire to avoid a situation that could get out of control.
  • "The desire to avoid an extremely delicate political problem for us all, and another reason which is private to me."
  • "I hope you are not surprised by my desire to avoid the appearance of division between us."
  • My guess is there was also a desire to avoid going to the exam.
  • I was taking the desire to avoid anarchy as a given!
3. avoid sentimentality = uniknij sentymentalności avoid sentimentality
(53) involvement, intimacy
Kolokacji: 2
(56) traffic, pressure, interaction
Kolokacji: 3
(58) reference, cliche, mention
Kolokacji: 3
(67) caffeine, tree, coffee
Kolokacji: 3
(70) surgery, amputation, dairy
Kolokacji: 3
(73) travel, runoff, leakage, leak
Kolokacji: 4
(74) scam, glance, rip-off, jargon
Kolokacji: 4
(75) panic, isolation, repression
Kolokacji: 3
(76) extreme, tip
Kolokacji: 2
(77) bias, partisanship, prejudice
Kolokacji: 3
(80) sanction, name
Kolokacji: 2
(83) sex, intercourse, inbreeding
Kolokacji: 3
(85) smoke, interception, bullet
Kolokacji: 3
(86) fines, ticket
Kolokacji: 2
(87) hand, noise, scratch
Kolokacji: 3
(88) stereotype, stereotyping
Kolokacji: 2
(90) flooding, overload, flood
Kolokacji: 3
(93) sunlight, overexposure
Kolokacji: 2
(97) sugar, carbohydrate
Kolokacji: 2
(98) turnover, meal
Kolokacji: 2
(99) stock, step, punch
Kolokacji: 3
(100) evil, sin
Kolokacji: 2
(101) fat, obesity
Kolokacji: 2
(102) burnout
Kolokacji: 1
(103) stagnation, obsolescence
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + avoid
Kolokacji: 56
help avoid • swerve to avoid • try to avoid • manage to avoid • seek to avoid • attempt to avoid • prefer to avoid • tend to avoid • ...
avoid + preposición
Kolokacji: 32
avoid by • avoid during • avoid at • avoid through • avoid in • ...
avoid + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 60
narrowly avoid • carefully avoid • generally avoid • studiously avoid • deliberately avoid • largely avoid • barely avoid • ...

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