avoiding

(transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.
(transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
(transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.
(transitive) To try not to do something or to have something happen.
(obsolete, transitive) To make empty; to clear.
(transitive) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
(transitive) To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
(obsolete, transitive) To emit or throw out; to void.
(obsolete, transitive) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
(obsolete, transitive) To get rid of.
(intransitive, obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
(intransitive, obsolete) To become void or vacant.