| 单词 | avoidable |
| 释义 | avoidable (once / 1192 pages) adj Something avoidable can be averted or dodged. Death is not avoidable. When you can avoid something, there's a way around it. A fast quarterback can avoid a linebacker blitzing, and daily exercise is a way to avoid gaining weight. Anything that can be avoided is avoidable. Late fees are avoidable if you pay your bills on time. The flu is avoidable if you get a flu shot. An annoying neighbor is avoidable if you get in your apartment before he spots you. Whew! WORD FAMILYavoidable: avoidably, unavoidable+/avoid: avoidable, avoidance, avoided, avoiding, avoids/avoidance: avoidances/unavoidable: unavoidability, unavoidably USAGE EXAMPLESBut, more importantly, it ultimately helps to safeguard our patients from avoidable harm. BBC(Dec 28, 2016) Fire is a major winter hazard, most often avoidable. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) A review in October found his death was "potentially avoidable". BBC(Dec 19, 2016) adj capable of being avoided or warded off Syn|Ant avertable, avertible, evitable inevitable incapable of being avoided or prevented fatal, fatefulcontrolled or decreed by fate; predetermined ineluctable, inescapable, unavoidableimpossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion" necessaryunavoidably determined by prior circumstances |
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