of Avoid

He no longer avoided her eyes. – The Way of an Eagle by Ethel M. Dell

The next morning she avoided him and went off early to school. – The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

Everything that could be attempted was put into practice; and if I did not lose my life, at all events I was avoided by almost everybody as a dangerous and doubtful character. – Mr. Midshipman Easy by Captain Frederick Marryat

By common law a lease made by a married woman was avoided after her husband's death. – Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles

He shrank into himself, avoided society, and rarely sought even intimate friends. – Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley