Avoid is valid Scrabble Word

Is avoid a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is avoid valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for AVOID in dictionary:

VERB:

to evade
keep away from or stop oneself from doing (something)
contrive not to meet (someone)
not go to or through (a place)
prevent from happening
repudiate, nullify, or render void (a decree or contract)
To retire; to withdraw.
To become void or vacant.
stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something
prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening

ADJECTIVE:

To empty.
To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.
To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
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.
To get rid of.
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.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to keep away from

Words related to AVOID

avoidable15 avoidably18 avoided12 avoider11 avoiders12 avoiding13 avoids10 evitate10 evite8 shun7

Words that contain AVOID

avoids10 avoided12 avoider11 avoidant12 avoiders12 avoiding13 avoidable15 avoidably18 avoidance15 unavoided14 avoidances16 unavoidable17 unavoidably20 unavoidability23 unavoidableness21

How to use AVOID in a sentence

There is no subterfuge that they have not tried in order to avoid its serious investigation.
Piers made a jerky movement as if to avoid the touch, but the hand closed slowly and steadily upon him.
An immediate, clear and unmistakable reply of Your Government is the sole way to avoid endless misery.
But now it is not only in my power, but it is absolutely necessary for me, unless we prefer being slaves to fighting with all our strength and courage to avoid being slaves.
It has been suggested that, in order to avoid the assembling of frivolous crowds in war-time, races might be run in private.
Now Hector had been warned by Apollo to avoid meeting Achilles, but when he saw his young brother slain, he could no longer stand aloof.
The object of these petitions was to avoid perpetual infamy, to recover social status, and to obtain an impartial hearing in doubtful cases.
I stopped them to give me a hand and to do as much work as I could possibly avoid doing myself while preserving an appearance of omniscience.
She recommended despatch and union, and earnestly exhorted them to avoid any heats or divisions that might give encouragement to the common enemies of the church and state.
So Curtis went out into the street, and, with no other purpose than to avoid the publicity and questioning of the crowd gathered in and around the hotel, sauntered into Broadway.

If the penalty for robbery is life imprisonment, he kills to avoid detection.
Well, he was not going out of his way to avoid her father.
And then a strange agitation took her so that she wanted to spring up and avoid him.
To avoid the more traveled thoroughfare, while the evening was still early, it had been arranged that she should at first take a less direct but less frequented road.
Robin did not like that cheer, and therefore, to avoid it, he ran away, and left his mother a heavy woman for him.
But there are risks which the would-be young can and should avoid.
There was no longer in his mind the slightest wish to avoid the approaching flirtation.
Gilbert sat silent and watchful, eating just enough to avoid observation.
There were some who, to avoid the sin of drunkenness, entirely denied themselves the use of wine.
It was useless for her to try to avoid him, as he came direct to her to ask her for the next dance.

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