avoid vs skirt

avoid is not a noun while skirt is a noun.

avoid and skirt both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
avoid	No	No	Yes	No
skirt	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, skirt is a hyponym of avoid; that is, skirt is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than avoid:

avoid: stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something
skirt: avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

Other hyponyms of avoid include circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, escape, miss, escape, get away, get by, get off, get out, bypass, get around, go around, short-circuit, keep off, stay off, shirk, shy away from, eschew, shun.

avoid (noun)	skirt (noun)
	a garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women
	cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist
	informal terms for a (young) woman
	(Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar

avoid (verb)	skirt (verb)
stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something	avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
refrain from certain foods or beverages	extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
declare invalid	pass around or about; move along the border
prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off	form the edge of
refrain from doing something

Difference between avoid and skirt

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