väistää — meaning in English

English meaning

avoid verb To keep away from someone or something, especially something unwanted or harmful.
bypass noun A road built to route traffic around a town or busy area.
clear adj Transparent, or free of clouds, mist, or obstruction.
dodge verb To avoid something by moving quickly out of its way.
equivocate verb To avoid giving a clear or straight answer, using words that could mean more than one thing in order to mislead someone.
evade verb To cleverly avoid or escape something, such as a person, question, or duty.
falsify verb To alter information dishonestly, usually to deceive someone.
render verb To cause something to become a certain way.
yield verb To produce or give as a result, especially a crop, profit, or outcome.

väistää is used for these senses in English:

avoid (transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.
bat away To avoid by diverting the focus of a discussion.
bypass To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.
clear (transitive) To pass without interference; to miss.
dodge (ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
equivocate (intransitive) To speak using double meaning; to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, with intent to deceive; to vacillate in one's answers, responding with equivoques.
equivocate (transitive) To render equivocal or ambiguous.
evade (transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.

verb To keep away from someone or something, especially something unwanted or harmful.
verb To prevent something from happening, or to stop yourself from doing something.
verb legal: To make a contract or legal act void; to cancel it.

noun A road built to route traffic around a town or busy area.
noun A surgical procedure that reroutes blood flow around a blocked or damaged part.
verb To avoid something by going around it, or to skip normal procedure.