Avoid vs Offcome - What's the difference?

avoid | offcome |

As a verb avoid

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

As a noun offcome is

that which comes off or the act or process of coming off; emission.

avoid

English

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.

Usage notes

* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

Derived terms

* avoid like the plague

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offcome

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)

That which comes off or the act or process of coming off; emission.

*1883 , Royal Astronomical Society, NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online, Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Volume 45 - Page 96 :

[...] to observe as regards exact direction, owing (especially in the instance of pretty bright meteors) to the dense offcome of sparks from the nucleus, or to the phosphorescence it generates as the result of concussion with the air.

The way any thing or business turns out]]; the way a person [[come off, comes off from an encounter or enterprise; result; outcome; reception.

*1885 , Francis Warner, Physical expression: its modes and principles - Page 37 :

Such movement is called reflex action, or reflex movement, in distinction from the case of the statue, where there is no change or movement in the subject, which is passive, all expression being an offcome , not an " outcome;" [...]

*2010 , H. W. Dickinson, James Watt: Craftsman and Engineer - Page 21 :

In July he wrote to his father: " I have not yet got a master, they all make some objection or other" and no wonder, for who wanted such an "offcome "?

(UK, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) An apology; excuse.

(UK, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) An escape or evasion by subterfuge or pretext; a way of avoiding or getting out of a difficult or uncomfortable situation.

Synonyms

* (l)