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さける
Meanings
Verb (1-dan, transitive)
1. to avoid (situation); to evade (question, subject); to shirk (one's responsibilities)
when read as "さける"
That alone must absolutely be avoided.
Verb (1-dan, transitive)
2. to ward off; to avert
Alt. forms
避さける
92%
よける
6%
さける
1%
除よける
Pitch accent
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Conjugations...Used in: 487
Used in vocabulary (5 in total)
to avoid a problem
to keep one's distance from someone (due to fear or because that person is superior)
to spare the trouble (of doing)
2 more...
Examples (85 in total)
Disasters are unavoidable.
It was an unavoidable situation, wasn't it?
Are you avoiding me?
She avoids me.
I avoid reading the news.
I twist my body and dodge it.
I walked around the puddles.
The police wanted to avoid bloodshed.
As a matter of fact, bankruptcy is inevitable.
Avoid fried foods for a while.
I know you've been avoiding me.
It is something I have been avoiding all along.
Try to avoid bad company.
This appears to have been inevitable.
Allen immediately tries to dodge.
I dodged the ball that came flying at me.
I fell over trying to dodge a bicycle.
I tried to avoid conflict.
It's necessary to avoid stress.
We have to avoid a conflict as far as possible.
I disguised myself because I wanted to avoid being found by the enemy.
The use of military force should be avoided.
It is easy to avoid the charge.
I want to avoid clashing more than necessary.
Please avoid firing as much as you can.
It seems that tourists are avoiding it.
It was wise of you to keep away from him.
We must avoid war by all possible means.
I try to avoid arguments.
Tom is trying to avoid Mary, isn't he?
The Foreign Minister said that war was inevitable.
War must be avoided at all costs.
That alone must absolutely be avoided.
We can't just keep avoiding it forever.
I stood under a tree to avoid getting wet.
You might avoid an unpleasant experience.
I had thought it was suspicious, but avoiding it was the right call.
I thought you were the type to avoid contact with others.
I won't say never do it again, but avoid it as much as possible.
It is impossible to do so completely, but it would be better to avoid it to some extent.
It was a close call, but it seems the direct hit was avoided.
I tried to avoid looking at her eyes.
She avoided answering my questions.
It's best to avoid making categorical statements.
That alone must be avoided at all costs.
I just want to avoid troublesome things in the future.
How can you avoid the dangers of the Internet?
He sought shelter from the rain.
Avoid direct sunlight and store at room temperature.
We have to avoid the nuclear war by all means.
So-called trade friction could be avoided some day.
He was so near that I couldn't avoid him.
You must avoid making such mistakes.
That is the biggest reason why I avoided the exam this time.
We must avoid a repeat of that tragedy at all costs.
If you determine that, it's not difficult to avoid!
It's best to avoid the risk of that happening as much as possible.
Skillful diplomacy helps to avert war.
I also want to avoid being retaliated against by everyone again.
We moved forward, avoiding the debris scattered across the floor.
He is so aggressive that others avoid him.
As long as you avoid that time, entering and exiting is not particularly difficult.
We took a back road to avoid the traffic accident.
With a little more care, the driver could have avoided such a tragic accident.
She started early in order to avoid the rush hour.
If you had left a little earlier, you would have avoided the heavy traffic.
Had he known the facts, the accident might have been avoided.
That alone should have been enough to avoid a commotion like yesterday's.
One should avoid making unnecessary remarks about a woman's age.
Let's focus on confirming survival and avoid rushing.
In order to avoid misunderstandings, they went through the contract again.
You should avoid calling a person after ten at night.
Many mistakes could have been avoided through simple experiments.
We stayed home for Christmas, so as to avoid heavy traffic.
Another thing to avoid is to use too much praise.
We got up at dawn to avoid a traffic jam.
Shy people avoid eye contact and blush easily.
Store in a cool place, away from direct sunlight.
You'd better avoid discussion of religion and politics.
To many, change seems inevitable.
Crossing the sky are birds fleeing to avoid the presence of people.
Combat is avoided as much as possible, and the search involves covering a wide area.
I don't know how to legally get around those regulations.
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Westerners, in general, prefer to avoid such topics unless the other person brings them up.