Avoiding and Avoidance

noun

• Deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening.
  • synonyms: turning away, shunning, dodging

• (n.) The act of becoming vacant or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation or resignation of the incumbent.
• (n.) A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
• (n.) The act of annulling; annulment.
• (n.) The courts by which anything is carried off.
• (n.) The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.