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Webster 1828 Edition
Avoiding
AVOID'ING
,ppr.
Definition 2024
avoiding
avoiding
English
Verb
avoiding
- present participle of avoid
- Have you been avoiding me? (as progressive form of avoid)
- I noted his carefully avoiding eye contact. (as present participle)
- I noted his careful avoiding of eye contact. (as gerund)
Noun
avoiding (plural avoidings)
- Avoidance.
- 1865, Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?, page 9:
- Two classes of people she had chosen to avoid, having been driven to such avoidings by her aunt's preferences; marquises and such-like, whether wicked or otherwise, she had eschewed, and had eschewed likewise all Low Church tendencies.
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