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Examples:

避ける さける N1

  1. to avoid (physical contact with)
  2. to avoid (situation); to evade (question, subject); to shirk (one's responsibilities)
  3. to avert; to ward off
  4. to move out of the way; to put aside

三舎を避ける さんしゃをさける

  1. to keep one's distance from someone (due to fear or because that person is superior)

暑を避ける しょをさける

  1. to go away for the summer; to summer

責任を避ける せきにんをさける

  1. to shirk a responsibility

煩を避ける はんをさける

  1. to spare the trouble (of doing)

問題を避ける もんだいをさける

  1. to avoid a problem

三舎 さんしゃ

  1. three days' march (approx. 36.5 km)
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