avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
put off
Verb
cause to feel embarrassment
put off
Verb
cause to feel intense dislike or distaste
put off
Verb
take away the enthusiasm of
put off
Verb
hold back to a later time
pettifog
Verb
argue over petty things
polemize
Verb
engage in a controversy
polemise
Verb
engage in a controversy
prohibit
Verb
to command against
polemicize
Verb
engage in a controversy
polemicise
Verb
engage in a controversy
proscribe
Verb
command against
pooh-pooh
Verb
reject with contempt
pooh-pooh
Verb
express contempt about
pray
Verb
call upon in supplication
pray
Verb
address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship
plead
Verb
appeal or request earnestly
plead
Verb
enter a plea, as in courts of law
plead
Verb
offer as an excuse or plea
plead
Verb
make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts
prevail
Verb
use persuasion successfully
prevail
Verb
prove superior
prevail
Verb
be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
prevail
Verb
continue to exist
prevail
Verb
be valid, applicable, or true
pull back
Verb
make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
pull back
Verb
stretch back a bowstring on an archer's bow
pull back
Verb
move to a rearward position
pull back
Verb
use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
pull back
Verb
pull back or move away or backward
put away
Verb
turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily
put away
Verb
eat up
put away
Verb
kill gently, as with an injection
put away
Verb
place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
put away
Verb
stop using
put away
Verb
throw or cast away
put away
Verb
lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
put aside
Verb
turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily
put aside
Verb
stop using
pull in one's horns
Verb
to make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
plea-bargain
Verb
agree to plead guilty in return for a lesser charge