Avoid and Allow

verb

• Stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something.
  • usage: "Her former friends now avoid her"
• Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening.
  • usage: "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
  • synonyms: debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, ward off
• Refrain from doing something.
  • usage: "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"
• Refrain from certain foods or beverages.
  • usage: "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"
  • synonyms: keep off
• Declare invalid.
  • usage: "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
  • synonyms: invalidate, annul, quash, void, nullify

• (a.) To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
• (a.) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
• (v.i.) To become void or vacant.
• (a.) To get rid of.
• (a.) 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.
• (a.) 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.
• (a.) To empty.
• (v.i.) To retire; to withdraw.
• (a.) To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.

verb

• Make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen.
  • usage: "This permits the water to rush in"; "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off"
  • synonyms: let, permit
• Consent to, give permission.
  • usage: "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam"
  • synonyms: permit, let, countenance
• Let have.
  • usage: "grant permission"; "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison"
  • synonyms: grant
• Give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause.
  • usage: "I will earmark this money for your research"; "She sets aside time for meditation every day"
  • synonyms: appropriate, earmark, set aside, reserve
• Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain.
  • usage: "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure provides for lots of leeway"
  • synonyms: leave, allow for, provide
• Allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something.
  • usage: "I allow for this possibility"; "The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash"
  • synonyms: take into account
• Afford possibility.
  • usage: "This problem admits of no solution"; "This short story allows of several different interpretations"
  • synonyms: admit
• Allow the other (baseball) team to score.
  • usage: "give up a run"
  • synonyms: give up
• Grant as a discount or in exchange.
  • usage: "The camera store owner allowed me $50 on my old camera"
• Allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting.
  • usage: "We don't allow dogs here"; "Children are not permitted beyond this point"; "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital"
  • synonyms: permit, tolerate

• (v.t.) To sanction; to invest; to intrust.
• (v.t.) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
• (v.i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
• (v.t.) To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition.
• (v.t.) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.
• (v.t.) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.
• (v.t.) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest.
• (v.t.) To like; to be suited or pleased with.