Collocations for avoid - verb

altogether
It is sometimes impossible to avoid conflict altogether.

actively, assiduously, carefully, consciously, deliberately, intentionally, purposefully, purposely, scrupulously, studiously
The two men carefully avoided one another.
I scrupulously avoid artificial additives when I buy food.

barely, narrowly
They narrowly avoided defeat in the semi-final.

deftly, wisely
He deftly avoided answering the question.

pointedly
She pointedly avoided looking at him when she spoke.

easily, successfully
Most of these problems could have been easily avoided.

generally, largely
As someone who generally avoids teen movies, I didn't expect to enjoy this.

at all costs
Getting involved in a court case is something to be avoided at all costs.

be anxious to, want to, wish to
They are anxious to avoid any further misunderstandings.

attempt to, try to
be careful to, take care to
He was careful to avoid any sentimentality in his speech.

help (to)
be able to, manage to
be possible to
be difficult to, be impossible to

an attempt to avoid sth, an effort to avoid sth
He failed in his attempt to avoid having to pay.

narrowly
He braked hard and narrowly avoided a parked van.

brake to, slow to, slow down to
swerve to
She swerved to avoid a bicycle.

duck to, duck down to
They ducked to avoid a low branch.

Avoid is used with these nouns as the object:
accident, alcohol, ambiguity, annihilation, appearance, arrest, attention, bankruptcy, bias, bloodshed, blow, boredom, build-up, capture, carbohydrate, casualty, catastrophe, censure, chaos, charge, clash, cliché, collapse, collision, complication, conflict, confrontation, confusion, congestion, conscription, contact, contamination, controversy, conversation, crash, creation, creditor, crisis, criticism, crowd, damage, danger, death, defeat, dehydration, delay, destiny, destruction, detection, difficulty, disadvantage, disagreement, disappointment, disaster, discord, dispute, disruption, distortion, distraction, distress, draft, duplication, duty, effect, embarrassment, encounter, error, excess, expense, exposure, extradition, extreme, failure, fat, fate, fatigue, fire, food, gaze, hazard, impression, incident, inconvenience, infection, influence, injury, interference, issue, jail, jargon, liability, limelight, litigation, mention, mishap, mistake, misunderstanding, necessity, need, obstacle, penalty, peril, persecution, pitfall, pollution, pregnancy, prison, problem, prosecution, publicity, punishment, question, recession, recognition, recourse, recurrence, reduction, redundancy, reference, repetition, responsibility, rigour, risk, rush, scandal, scrutiny, showdown, situation, stagnation, starvation, stigma, stress, subject, suspicion, tax, taxation, temptation, traffic, tragedy, trap, trouble, urge, violation, wastage, waste, worst, wrath