AVOID

A Void

A Void, translated from the original French La Disparition, is a 300-page French lipogrammatic novel, written in 1969 by Georges Perec, entirely without using the letter e, following Oulipo constraints.

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avoid

Verb

  1. To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.
    I try to avoid the company of gamblers.
  2. To make empty; to clear.
  3. To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
  4. To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
  5. To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
  6. To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
  7. To get rid of.
  8. To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
  9. To become void or vacant.


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