transitive. = forbow, v. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To avoid, abandon.

In weaker sense: To avoid with dread or dislike; to eschew, shun. Occasionally in passive; also †with infinitive as object.

transitive. To pass by or avoid by making a circuit; to shun.

To shun, avoid, escape from.

transitive. To flee from, flee, avoid, shun.

transitive. To fly from, shun, escape.

transitive. To shun, avoid (a thing); also with reflexive pronoun.

to avoid.

To shun, avoid; to elude, escape; to dodge (a blow). Obsolete.

transitive. To avoid, shun. To abstain carefully from, avoid, shun (an action, a course of conduct, an indulgence, an article of food or drink…

transitive. To avoid, eschew, refrain from (sin, error, etc.). Obsolete.

transitive (originally with dative) To escape, avoid, shun.

To avoid, shun, keep clear of. Now rare.

To keep away, refrain from. Obsolete.

To leave alone, set aside; to abstain or refrain from; to have nothing to do with. Obsolete. A thing, action, course of conduct, etc. = avoid, v. 8b.

To turn aside from; to get or keep out of the way of; to avoid, shun. Obsolete (or merged in 13.)

To avoid, shun; to keep away from or keep from interfering with; to leave alone. Obsolete.

transitive. To avoid, shun.

(the usual current sense—a natural extension of 7): To leave alone, keep clear of or away from, shun… a thing, course of action, etc.

transitive. To avoid, shun.

transitive. = eschew, v.1

transitive. To avoid, shun. (In 18–19th centuries almost peculiar to Scottish writers.)

transitive. To avoid, shun; to get out of the way of. Obsolete.

To shun, avoid. Obsolete.

transitive. = eschew, v.1

transitive. To shun.

transitive. = flee, v. 7 8 †to fly the heels (see quot. 1727).

transitive (reflexive) and intransitive. Usually with from. To keep away from or avoid something; to refrain from some action, task, etc.; (in later…

transitive. To avoid, shun; = evite, v.

To put away from oneself, eschew. Obsolete. rare.

colloquial. transitive. To renounce, give up, absent oneself from, avoid (a thing).

transitive. To shun or avoid (a person, thing, or immaterial thing).

transitive. To shun, keep away from, avoid, in a skulking manner.

transitive. To avoid by slipping or moving sideways (literal and figurative); to elude, give the slip.

intransitive. to walk away from: to fail to deal with (something); to refuse to become, or cease to be, involved with.

North American colloquial. transitive. To avoid, defer, or give up on. Also: to pass responsibility for (something) to.