"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 • ...
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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
(4) barely, hardly
Kolokacji: 2
(6) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(7) assiduously, sedulously
Kolokacji: 2
(9) deftly, skillfully, adroitly
Kolokacji: 3
1. deftly avoid = zręcznie uniknij deftly avoid
2. skillfully avoid = umiejętnie uniknij skillfully avoid
3. adroitly avoid = zręcznie unikać adroitly avoid
  • He listened to the plans of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland to overthrow King Henry IV, but adroitly avoided any implication, involvement or commitment to either side.
  • Fortunately, we have always adroitly avoided the best-seller list, thus sparing The Times's editors the embarrassment of synopsizing our handle-impaired books.
  • The ancient one would have shaken Ole Doc's hand but Ole Doc adroitly avoided it, smiling through his visor.
  • Mr. Gaviria's film, which opens today at the Public Theater, adroitly avoids sensationalizing its already explosive subject.
  • (The amiable P.L.O. spokesman adroitly avoids making an explicit acknowledgment of Israel's right to exist.)
  • He made no foul shots because he was never fouled, having adroitly avoided the action.
  • Then Aleta and Maximillian abruptly arrived, adroitly avoiding a collision with the others.
  • Cumbrae was proud of his lineage but also aware that his ancestors had come to prominence by adroitly avoiding the gibbet and the hangman's ministrations.
  • Adam debated the wisdom of remembering Harry's improvisations word for word in this company, but when pressed he produced them, adroitly avoiding the canon's eyes.
(10) strictly, rigorously
Kolokacji: 2

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