avoiding

Definizione monolingua

avoiding

avoiding

1. Present participle of avoid.

   Have you been avoiding me? (as progressive form of avoid)

   I noted his carefully avoiding eye contact. (as present participle)

   I noted his careful avoiding of eye contact. (as gerund)

   • 1865, Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?, page 9:

     Two classes of people she had chosen to avoid, having been driven to such avoidings by her aunts preferences; marquises and such-like, whether wicked or otherwise, she had eschewed, and had eschewed likewise all Low Church tendencies.

Definizione dizionario avoiding

Altri significati:

Present participle of avoid.