избега́ть — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abscond verb To leave secretly and hurriedly, usually to escape custody or having taken something that is not yours.
- avoid verb To keep away from someone or something, especially something unwanted or harmful.
- dodge verb To avoid something by moving quickly out of its way.
- 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.
- funk noun A strong, unpleasant smell, especially body odor.
- miss verb To fail to hit, catch, reach, or make contact with something.
- obviate verb To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required); to render (something) unnecessary.
- shun verb To deliberately avoid someone or something, often as a form of social rejection.
Senses
избега́ть is used for these senses in English:
- avoid (transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.
- dodge (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
- duck out (idiomatic, intransitive, followed by of or from) To move or act so as to achieve avoidance, escape, or evasion.
- 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 (intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
- forbear (transitive) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from.
- funk (ambitransitive) To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.
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.