väistää — meaning in English
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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 speak using double meaning; to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, with intent to deceive; to vacillate in one's answers, responding with equivoques.
- 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.
Senses
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.
avoid — full definition
- 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.
bypass — full definition
- 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.