1 free (of charge)

1 to suffer (defeat, death etc)

1 to meet by chance (usually with misfortune)

2 classifier for events: time, turn, incident

1 in order to avoid

2 so as not to

1 to excuse sb

2 to exempt

3 to remove or dismiss from office

4 to avoid

5 to avert

6 to escape

7 to be prohibited

1 to remove sth that could be used as a pretext (idiom)

1 to be unavoidable (idiom)

1 when it rains, it pours (idiom)

1 beset by a series of mishaps (idiom)

1 unable to break the custom (idiom)

2 bound by conventions