Definition of avoids:
(v) :
(transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.
(v) :
(transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.
(v) :
(transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
(v) :
(transitive) To try not to do something or to have something happen.
(v) :
(transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
(v) :
(transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate.