Avoid and Exclude

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

• Prevent from being included or considered or accepted.
  • usage: "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
  • synonyms: except, leave out, leave off, omit, take out
• Prevent from entering; shut out.
  • usage: "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country"
  • synonyms: keep out, shut out, shut
• Lack or fail to include.
  • usage: "The cost for the trip excludes food and beverages"
• Prevent from entering; keep out.
  • usage: "He was barred from membership in the club"
  • synonyms: bar, debar
• Put out or expel from a place.
  • usage: "The unruly student was excluded from the game"
  • synonyms: eject, chuck out, turf out, boot out, turn out

• (v.t.) To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting.
• (v.t.) To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.