Usually means: Deliberately stayed away from something.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word avoided:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. avoided: Merriam-Webster
  2. avoided: Collins English Dictionary
  3. avoided: Vocabulary.com
  4. Avoided, avoided: Wordnik
  5. avoided: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. avoided: Wiktionary
  7. Avoided, avoided: Dictionary.com
  8. avoided: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Avoided: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Avoided: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. avoided: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. avoided: FreeDictionary.org
  13. avoided: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. avoided: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. avoided: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. avoided: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (avoid)

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