Verb

To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.

:I try to avoid the company of gamblers.

*1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 4:

*:The devyllsayde unto hym: all these will I geve the, iff thou wilt faull doune and worship me. Then sayde Jesus unto hym. Avoyde Satan.

*Milton

*:What need a man forestall his date of grief, / And run to meet what he would most avoid ?

*Macaulay

*:He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility.

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(obsolete) To make empty; to clear.

:(Wyclif)

To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).

*Spenser

*:How can these grants of the king's be avoided ?

(legal) 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.

:(Blackstone)

(obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.

:(Sir Thomas Browne)

(obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.

*:

*:Anone they encountred to gyders / and he with the reed shelde smote hym soo hard that he bare hym ouer to the erthe / There with anone came another Knyght of the castel / and he was smyten so sore that he auoyded his fadel

*Francis Bacon

*:Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room.

(obsolete) To get rid of.

:(Shakespeare)

(obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.

(obsolete) To become void or vacant.

Verb

(en verb)

To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.

* 2004 , Constance Garnett (translator), Anton Chekhov (Russian author), “Ariadne”, in The Darling: and Other Stories :

he needed a great deal of money, but his uncle only allowed him two thousand roubles a year, which was not enough, and for days together he would run about Moscow with his tongue out, as the saying is.

To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.

* 1855 , (William Makepeace Thackeray), (The Newcomes)

I allow , with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conductwas highly reprehensible.

To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.

To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.

*

With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get

To not bar or obstruct.

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To acknowledge or concede.

* 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam (2011), page 154:

Half the night passed before the wench allowed that it might be safe to stop.

To take into account by making an allowance.

When calculating a budget for a construction project, always allow for contingencies.

To render physically possible.

* 1824 , (Washington Irving), :

The inlet allowed a facility to bring the money in a boat secretly and at night to the very foot of the hill.

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(obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

* Bible, Luke xi. 48

Ye allow the deeds of your fathers.

* Fuller

We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning.

(obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.

* Shakespeare

Thou shalt be allowed with absolute power.

(obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.

* Massinger

How allow you the model of these clothes?