Synonyms of avoid

1 Syllable

skirt, hide, shirk, lam, shy, fled, duck, juke, skulk, flee, ditch, fleeing, shunt, shun, jump, flinch, skip

2 Syllables

flinching, scorning, forbear, deflect, flinched, fudged, dodge, staving, skulking, juking, withdraw, abstain, prevent, feinted, skulked, tiptoed, recoil, fudging, staved, avert, nit-pick, flinches, shunting, forbears, weave, lamming, shunted, parried, starve, eschew, fearing, parry, parrying, shake, boycott, stave, scorned, fudge, parries, desist, warded, warding, divert, feinting, bypass, abstains, tiptoeing, lammed

3 Syllables

preventing, boycotted, pettifog, declining, fence-sit, evaded, refrained, evade, abstained, averting, declined, pussyfoot, obviate, retreated, bewared, evading, averted, argufy, refraining, beware, sidestep, boycotting, disliking, mislike, retreating, ignore, ignoring, ignored, escaping, abstaining, forborne, eschewed, desisting, elude, chicaning, forbore, eschewing, escape, disliked, circumvent, expulse

4 Syllables

ostracizing, sidestepping, ostracize, circumvented, pussyfooting, circumventing, pettifogging, sidestepped

5 Syllables

circumlocute, antipathize, paralogize

6 Syllables

hypercriticize