Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth / Inordinate desire for some supposed good.

(transitive) To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer. / (intransitive, obsolete) To take vengeance.

(archaic) An act of vengeance; a revenge.

Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike often without any conscious reasoning. / An object of dislike or repugnance. / (obsolete) The act of turning away from an object.

(transitive) To turn aside or away. / (transitive) To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of. / (intransitive, archaic) To turn away.

(transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun / (transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful). / to keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from

(transitive, often reflexive) To turn to the advantage of. / (transitive) To be of service to. / (transitive) To promote; to assist.

Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions). / (now only US) Proceeds; profits from business transactions.

A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice. / A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.

(intransitive) To descend like an avalanche. / (transitive) To come down upon; to overwhelm. / (transitive) To propel downward like an avalanche.