välttää — meaning in English
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English meaning
- avoid verb To keep away from someone or something, especially something unwanted or harmful.
- cheat verb To break rules in order to gain an unfair advantage.
- do verb To perform or carry out an action or task.
- escape verb To get free from confinement, danger, or an unpleasant situation.
- eschew verb To deliberately avoid or keep away from something, usually on moral or practical grounds.
- evade verb To cleverly avoid or escape something, such as a person, question, or duty.
- forbear verb To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from.
- obviate verb To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required); to render (something) unnecessary.
- taboo noun A subject, word, or action that is avoided or forbidden because of strong social or cultural disapproval.
Senses
välttää is used for these senses in English:
- avoid (transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.
- cheat (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
- do (ambitransitive) To suffice.
- escape (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
- eschew (transitive, formal) To avoid; to shun, to shy away from.
- evade (transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.
- evade (transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
- forbear (transitive) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain 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.
cheat — full definition
- verb To break rules in order to gain an unfair advantage.
- verb To be sexually or romantically unfaithful to a partner.
- verb To deceive or trick someone, often to take something from them.
- noun A person who cheats, or an act of cheating.