Synonyms of the word

avoid

• v. (transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make empty; to clear.
• v. (transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
• v. (transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get rid of.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become void or vacant.

abstain

• v. (transitive, reflexive, obsolete) Keep or withhold oneself.
• v. (intransitive) Refrain from (something); hold oneself aloof; to forbear or keep from doing, especially…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) Fast.
• v. (intransitive) Deliberately refrain from casting one's vote at a meeting where one is present.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) Hinder; keep back; withhold.

annul

• v. (transitive) To formally revoke the validity of.
• v. (transitive) To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.

avert

• v. (transitive) To turn aside or away.
• v. (transitive) To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To turn away.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To turn away.

cancel

• v. (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
• v. (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
• v. (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
• v. (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction,…
• v. (transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.
• v. (printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
• v. (obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
• v. (slang) To kill.
• n. A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
• n. (obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
• n. (printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

debar

• v. (transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.
• v. (US, law, transitive) To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection…

deflect

• v. (transitive) To make (something) deviate from its original path.
• v. (intransitive) To deviate from its original path.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To avoid addressing (questions, criticism, etc.).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To divert (attention, etc.).

desist

• v. (intransitive) To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from.

forbid

• v. (transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
• v. (transitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
• v. (transitive) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To defy; to challenge.

foreclose

• v. (transitive) To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments;…
• v. (transitive) To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged…
• v. (transitive) To prevent from doing something.
• v. (transitive) To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

forestall

• v. (transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to…
• v. (transitive) To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
• v. (archaic) To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly…
• v. To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
• v. To deprive (with of).
• v. (Britain, law) To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the…
• n. (obsolete or historical) An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
• n. Something situated or placed in front.

invalidate

• v. To make invalid. Especially applied to contract law.

nullify

• v. (transitive, law) to make legally invalid.
• v. to prevent from happening.

obviate

• v. (transitive) To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary…
• v. (transitive) To avoid (a future problem or difficult situation).

preclude

• v. (transitive) Remove the possibility of; rule out; prevent or exclude; to make impossible.

prevent

• v. (transitive) To stop; to keep from.
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To take preventative measures.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To come before; to precede.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To outdo, surpass.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.

quash

• v. To defeat forcibly.
• v. To crush or dash to pieces.
• v. (law) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).

refrain

• v. (transitive, archaic) To hold back, to restrain (someone or something).
• v. (reflexive, archaic) To show restraint; to hold oneself back.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To repress (a desire, emotion etc.); to check or curb.
• v. (intransitive) To stop oneself from some action or interference; to abstain.
• v. (transitive, now rare, regional) To abstain from (food or drink).
• n. The chorus or burden of a song repeated at the end of each verse or stanza.
• n. A much repeated comment, complaint, or saying.

void

• adj. Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
• adj. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
• adj. Being without; destitute; devoid.
• adj. Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
• adj. Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
• adj. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
• adj. (computing, programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value.
• n. An empty space; a vacuum.
• n. (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
• n. (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
• n. (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
• v. (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
• v. (transitive, medicine) To empty.
• v. To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To withdraw, depart.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
• n. (now rare, historical) A voidee.