avoid something like the plague

Examples of avoided

avoided

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Footnotes should be avoided except as indicated above.
It may be avoided by replacing the vortex half-line by a narrow vortex cone.
Respiratory excursions substantially modify the velocity profile and should be avoided during standard recording.
The use of vertical rules should be avoided.
There are interesting tensions between the chapters, which the editors have wisely avoided editing out for the sake of consistency of viewpoint.
A vocal delivery that might seem haughty or conceited, too mellifluous or elegant, excessively 'musical', or calculated to please others must be avoided.
In particular, the risk of distortion of the pulmonary arteries is avoided.
Indeed, his efforts to solve problems others avoided probably exhausted him.
Any alterations at proof stage, apart from the correction of printer's misprints, are expensive and must be avoided.
Secondly, high water depths at application are to be avoided.
Many organizations have passively avoided tax payment by delaying the payment of wages altogether due to a lack of resources.
They indicate that the versifier avoided breaking more than one rule at once: verses without the alliteration also lack multiple metrical-grammatical requirements for it.
Obviously, record companies could maximise their profits if they avoided having to pay royalties.
However, redundant and superfluous cases can be avoided by requiring that no case be added to the set arbitrarily.
Hence, there is also no need to divide word processing into stages, and some of the problems originating from this division can be avoided.
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