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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

avoid †empty; †withdraw, retire; make void; leave alone, evade. XIV. —AN. avoider = (with prefix-substitution) OF. esvuidier (mod. évider hollow out, cut away), f. es- (:- EX-1) + vuide empty, VOID.
Hence avoidance XIV.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

avoid •avoid, Boyd, Coed, droid, Floyd, Freud, Lloyd, overjoyed, self-employed, unalloyed, underemployed, unemployed, void •geoid • amoeboid (US ameboid) •globoid • cuboid • gadoid • typhoid •fungoid • discoid • tabloid • colloid •celluloid • mongoloid • alkaloid •coralloid • crystalloid • prismoid •arachnoid • sphenoid • hominoid •crinoid, echinoid •solenoid • humanoid • paranoid •hypoid • anthropoid • gabbroid •android • steroid • thyroid • hydroid •spheroid • meteoroid • Murgatroyd •Polaroid •haemorrhoid (US hemorrhoid) •asteroid • schizoid • factoid • mastoid •deltoid • planetoid • ovoid • trapezoid •rhizoid

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