English-Spanish translations for avoid

• evitar
  No hay ninguna forma de evitar el impago. There is no way to avoid default.
  Debemos tratar de evitar la conciliación. We must try to avoid conciliation.
  Deberíamos evitar semejante incoherencia. We should avoid such inconsistency.
• esquivar
  Las devaluaciones habrían sido inevitables y no habríamos podido esquivar una crisis monetaria. Devaluations would have been inevitable and we would not have avoided a currency crisis.
  Para esquivar este iceberg, señor Alexander, deben seguir ustedes el rumbo del informe Böge. To avoid this iceberg, Mr Alexander, you have to sail in the direction of the Böge report.
  La Agencia de Seguridad Aérea bien podría ser el mejor ejemplo de la integración de la UE, siempre que podamos esquivar los escollos de la burocracia. An Aviation Safety Agency could also be an example of EU integration at its best, provided that the pitfalls of bureaucracy are avoided.

Definition of avoid

• to try not to meet or communicate with ; to shun
• To try not to do something or to have something happen
• To make empty; to clear
• To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract
• To defeat or evade; to invalidate
• To emit or throw out; to void
• To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from
• To get rid of
• To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away
• To become void or vacant

Examples

• I try to avoid the company of gamblers.

Related words

• unavoidable
• avoidance
• avoidable
• unavoidably
• avoidably
• anti-avoidance
• avoid like the plague
• avoidant personality disorder
• absolutely; () not + unavoidably