avoiding

• IPA^(key): /əˈvɔɪdɪŋ/

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avoiding

1. 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)

avoiding (plural avoidings)

1. 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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