| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To keep away from: avoid, bypass, circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, escape, eschew, evade, get around, shun. Idioms: fight shy of, give a wide berth to, have no truck with, keep (or stay) (or steer) clear of. See SEEK. 2. To hold (something requiring an outlet) in check: choke (back), gag, hold back, hold down, hush (up), muffle, quench, repress, smother, squelch, stifle, strangle, suppress, throttle. Informal : sit on or (upon). See RESTRAINT.
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