Avoid vs. Void — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Avoid and Void
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Avoid
To stay clear of; go around or away from
Swerve to avoid a pothole.
Void
Containing no matter; empty.
Avoid
To take measures so as not to meet or see (someone)
"He never let go of the idea that she lived out there in order to avoid him" (Elizabeth Benedict).
Void
Not occupied; unfilled.
Avoid
To prevent from happening
You can avoid illness with exercise and a balanced diet.
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Void
Completely lacking; devoid
Void of understanding.
Avoid
To refrain from using, engaging in, or partaking of
Avoid red meat.
Avoid risky behavior.
Void
Ineffective; useless.
Avoid
To refrain from (doing something)
It was all we could do to avoid laughing at the remark.
Void
Having no legal force or validity; null
A contract rendered void.
Avoid
(Law) To annul or make void; invalidate.
Void
(Games) Lacking cards of a particular suit in a dealt hand.
Avoid
(Obsolete) To void or expel.
Void
An empty space.
Avoid
(transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun
Void
A vacuum.
Avoid
(transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
I avoided the slap easily.
One town was flooded from the storm, while the other town avoided the storm.
Void
An open space or a break in continuity; a gap.
Avoid
To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from
I try to avoid the company of gamblers.
Void
A feeling or state of emptiness, loneliness, or loss.
Avoid
To try not to do something or to have something happen
Void
(Games) Absence of cards of a particular suit in a dealt hand
A void in hearts.
Avoid
To make empty; to clear.
Void
To take out (the contents of something); empty.
Avoid
To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
Void
To excrete (body wastes).
Avoid
To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
Void
To leave; vacate.
Avoid
To emit or throw out; to void.
Void
To make void or of no validity; invalidate
Issued a new passport and voided the old one.
Avoid
To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
Void
To excrete body wastes.
Avoid
To get rid of.
Void
Nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
Avoid
To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
Void
Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
Avoid
To become void or vacant.
Void
Being without; destitute; devoid.
Avoid
To empty.
Void
Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
Avoid
To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
Void
Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
Null and void
Avoid
To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.
Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoidedthe room.
Void
Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
Avoid
To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
How can these grants of the king's be avoided?
Void
That does not return a value; a procedure.
Avoid
To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.
What need a man forestall his date of grief.And run to meet what he would most avoid ?
He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility.
Void
An empty space; a vacuum.
Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.
Avoid
To get rid of.
Void
(astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
Avoid
To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
No man can pray from his heart to be kept from temptation, if the take no care of himself to avoid it.
So Chanticleer, who never saw a fox,Yet shunned him as a sailor shuns the rocks.
Void
(materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
Avoid
To retire; to withdraw.
David avoided out of his presence.
Void
(fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
Avoid
To become void or vacant.
Void
(construction) An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
Avoid
Stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something;
Her former friends now avoid her
Void
A black cat.
My little void is so sweet sometimes.
Avoid
Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening;
Let's avoid a confrontation
Head off a confrontation
Avert a strike
Void
An empty place; A location that has nothing useful.
Avoid
Refrain from doing something;
She refrains from calling her therapist too often
He should avoid publishing his wife's memoires
Void
A voidee.
Avoid
Refrain from certain foods or beverages;
I keep off drugs
During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day
Void
(transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
He voided the check and returned it.
Avoid
Declare invalid;
The contract was annulled
Void a plea
Void
To empty.
Void one’s bowels
Void
To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
To void excrement
Void
To withdraw, depart.
Void
To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
To void a table
Void
Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
The earth was without form, and void.
I 'll get me to a place more void.
I 'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours,I may run over the story of his country.
Void
Having no incumbent; unoccupied; - said of offices and the like.
Divers great offices that had been long void.
Void
Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning, or of common use.
A conscience void of offense toward God.
He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor.
Void
Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
[My word] shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please.
I will make void the counsel of Judah.
Void
Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
Void
Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2.
Void
An empty space; a vacuum.
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defense,And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Void
To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table.
Void anon her place.
If they will fight with us, bid them come down,Or void the field.
Void
To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements.
A watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices.
With shovel, like a fury, voided outThe earth and scattered bones.
Void
To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify.
After they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken.
It was become a practice . . . to void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed.
Void
To be emitted or evacuated.
Void
The state of nonexistence
Void
An empty area or space;
The huge desert voids
The emptiness of outer space
Without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum
Void
Declare invalid;
The contract was annulled
Void a plea
Void
Clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place, receptacle, etc.) of something;
The chemist voided the glass bottle
The concert hall was voided of the audience
Void
Take away the legal force of or render ineffective;
Invalidateas a contract
Void
Excrete or discharge from the body
Void
Lacking any legal or binding force;
Null and void
Void
Containing nothing;
The earth was without form, and void
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