Avoid

v. t.	1.	To empty. [imp. & p. p. Avoided; p. pr. & vb. n. Avoiding.]
	2.	To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
	3.	To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from. Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room. - Bacon.
	4.	To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute. How can these grants of the king's be avoided? - Spenser.
	5.	To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters. What need a man forestall his date of grief. And run to meet what he would most avoid ? - Milton. He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. - Macaulay.
	6.	To get rid of.
	7.	(Pleading) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter. No man can pray from his heart to be kept from temptation, if the take no care of himself to avoid it. - Mason. So Chanticleer, who never saw a fox, Yet shunned him as a sailor shuns the rocks. - Dryden.
v. i.	1.	To retire; to withdraw. David avoided out of his presence. - 1 Sam. xviii. 11.
	2.	(Law) To become void or vacant.

Verb	1.	avoid - stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her" Antonyms: face, face up, confront - deal with (something unpleasant) head on; "You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes"
	2.	avoid - prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike" Synonyms: deflect, fend off, head off, avert, stave off, ward off, debar, obviate
	3.	avoid - refrain from doing something; "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memoires"
	4.	avoid - refrain from certain foods or beverages; "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day" Synonyms: keep off
	5.	avoid - declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea" Synonyms: annul, invalidate, nullify, void, quash

To dream that you are avoiding a person in your dream, suggest that you are not confronting some aspect of yourself. Consider what aspects and characteristics of the person you are avoiding which you are not recognizing in yourself. Alternatively, this word may also be a pun for "a void" in your life that you have been unable to fill.abstain, abstain from, be stuck-up, bilk, blench, blink, circumvent, cringe, debar, deflect, divert, do without, double, draw back, duck, exclude, fade, fall back, fight shy of, flinch, forbid, forgo, give place to, hang back, hold aloof, hold aloof from, hold back, jib, keep aloof, keep away from, keep clear of, keep from, keep hands off, keep off, keep remote from, leave alone, let alone, let go by, make way for, never touch, not meddle with, not touch, obviate, pass up, preclude, prevent, prohibit, pull back, quail, recoil, reel back, refrain, refrain from, retreat, sheer off, shrink, shrink back, shun, shy, sidestep, spare, stand aloof, stand aloof from, start aside, start back, stay detached from, steer clear of, swerve, turn aside, turn away from, ward off, weasel, weasel out, wince, withhold

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