| avoid | 1. To empty. 2. To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions. 3. To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from. "Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room." (Bacon) 4. To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute. "How can these grants of the king's be avoided?" (Spenser) 5. 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. "What need a man forestall his date of grief. And run to meet what he would most avoid ?" (Milton) "He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility." (Macaulay) 6. To get rid of. 7. 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. Synonym: To escape, elude, evade, eschew. To Avoid, Shun. Avoid in its commonest sense means, to keep clear of, an extension of the meaning, to withdraw one's self from. It denotes care taken not to come near or in contact; as, to avoid certain persons or places. Shun is a stronger term, implying more prominently the idea of intention. The words may, however, in many cases be interchanged. "No man can pray from his heart to be kept from temptation, if the take no care of himself to avoid it." (Mason) "So Chanticleer, who never saw a fox, yet shunned him as a sailor shuns the rocks." (Dryden) Origin: OF. Esvuidier, es (L. Ex) + vuidier, voidier, to empty. See Void. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| avoidance conditioning | The technique whereby an organism learns to avoid unpleasant or punishing stimuli by learning the appropriate anticipatory response to protect it from further such stimuli. Compare: escape conditioning. Synonym: avoidance training. (05 Mar 2000) |
| avoidance learning | A response to a cue that is instrumental in avoiding a noxious experience. (12 Dec 1998) |
| avoidance training | The technique whereby an organism learns to avoid unpleasant or punishing stimuli by learning the appropriate anticipatory response to protect it from further such stimuli. Compare: escape conditioning. Synonym: avoidance training. (05 Mar 2000) |
| avoidance-avoidance conflict | A situation of indecision and vacillation when the individual is confronted with two equally unattractive alternatives. (05 Mar 2000) |
| avoidant disorder of adolescence | A mental disorder occurring in childhood or adolescence characterised by an excessive shrinking away from contact with people who are unfamiliar. Synonym: avoidant disorder of adolescence. (05 Mar 2000) |
| avoidant disorder of childhood | A mental disorder occurring in childhood or adolescence characterised by an excessive shrinking away from contact with people who are unfamiliar. Synonym: avoidant disorder of adolescence. (05 Mar 2000) |
| avoidant personality | A personality characterised by a hypersensitivity to potential rejection, humiliation, or shame, an unwillingness to enter into relationships without unusually strong guarantees of uncritical acceptance, social withdrawal in spite of a desire for affection and acceptance, and low self-esteem. (05 Mar 2000) |
| avoided costs | An investment guideline describing the value of a conservation or generation resource investment by the cost of more expensive resources that a utility would otherwise have to acquire. (05 Dec 1998) |
Synonyms : Avoidance Learnings, Learning, Avoidance, Learnings, Avoidance
| avoidance |
deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
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| avoidance conditioning |
a form of operant conditioning in which an organism is trained to avoid certain responses or situations associated with negative consequences.
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| avoidant disorder of childhood or adolescence |
former name for a disorder that would now be included under the diagnosis of social phobia (DSM-IV).
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Principle of plant disease control marked by deliberate actions to take advantage of environmental factors and time unfavorable for disease development. (20)
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behavior that allows an animal to escape danger or conflict
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| avoid | stay clear from |
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| avoid | refrain from certain foods or beverages |
| avoid | prevent the occurrence of |
| avoid | refrain from doing something |
| avoid | declare invalid |
| avoid | capable of being avoided or warded off |
| avoid | deliberately avoiding |
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