avoid vs record

avoid

verb
  • To stay out of the way of (something harmful). 

  • To try not to do something or to have something happen 

  • to keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from 

  • To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun 

  • To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract). 

  • To defeat or evade; to invalidate. 

record

noun
  • The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events. 

  • A set of data relating to a single individual or item. 

  • An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium. 

  • A data structure similar to a struct, in some programming languages such as C and Java based on classes and designed for storing immutable data. 

  • Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference. 

adj
  • Enough to break previous records and set a new one; world-class; extreme. 

verb
  • To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium. 

  • To give legal status to by making an official public record. 

  • To make a record of information. 

  • To make an audio or video recording of. 

  • To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording. 

How often have the words avoid and record occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )