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Emptied; evacuated.

Not avoided or shunned. Shak.

antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. Washington.

To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from. [Obs.] Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room. Bacon.

Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.

autious; to take care; -- commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided. Beware of all, but most beware of man ! Pope. Beware the awful avalanche. Longfellow.

One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale. "Avoided as a blab." Milton. For who will open himself to a blab or a babbler. Bacon.

a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate. A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it. Blackstone.…

areful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness.

e skilled in chronology. That learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided. Locke. THe most exact chronologers tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in December. John Knox.

row border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided.

That which is voided; excrements. Arbuthnot.

human life, and determine its circumstances and duration. Marked by the Destinies to be avoided. Shak.

What is voided by the urinary passages; urine.

That which is to be avoided; one selected for punishment and to serve as a warning; a warning. Hang him; he'll be made an example. Shak. Now these things were our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 1 Cor. x. 6.

the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc. Else how had the world . . . Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat! Milton.

Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order.

Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford.

ncepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence. I oughte deme, of skilful jugement, That in the salte sea my wife is deed. Chaucer.

The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder into small pieces capable of being voided.