avoiding

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of avoidpresent participle and gerund of avoid

   Have you been avoiding me? (as progressive form of avoid)

   I noted his carefully avoiding eye contact. (as present participle)

   I noted his careful avoiding of eye contact. (as gerund)

noun

1. 1

   Avoidance.

   Two classes of people she had chosen to avoid, having been driven to such avoidings by her aunt's preferences; marquises and such-like, whether wicked or otherwise, she had eschewed, and had eschewed likewise all Low Church tendencies.

Forms

plural

avoidings