The phrase "avoided defining" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a situation where someone deliberately chose not to provide a definition or explanation for something.
Example: "In his speech, he avoided defining the term, leaving the audience confused about its meaning."
Alternatives: "refrained from defining" or "steered clear of defining".
Although the report was critical of Israeli policies, its tone was explanatory and it avoided defining political motivations on either side.
Ever since Ms Olsen rose from the typing-pool depths, the writers have conspicuously avoided defining her by her love life, and for that we are thankful.
He has long avoided defining a stance on how or whether to leave the European Union for fear of upsetting either pro- or anti-Brexit voters who could help bring his Labour Party back into a leadership role.
But the details of his budget, like the photograph, become more ambiguous on closer inspection.Mr Brown carefully avoided defining the family, or expressing an explicit preference for one sort of family over another.
400 C.E ., whose Abhidharmakosa (1923-31) is a foundational psychological text for Northern Buddhists, avoided defining pleasure (sukha) in terms of current desire by defining it instead through desire for it arising after it has stopped (1984, p. 66).
We avoided defining small AOIs covering specific face parts, due to the risk that small AOIs would not produce accurate results in a live eye-tracker setting when the model occasionally moves away from the calibrated stimulus surface (e.g., toward or away from the child).
"The court will avoid defining whether Palestine is a state.
Those demanding more combat troops for Afghanistan also avoid defining the real costs.
In his recent address from the Oval Office, President Obama urged Americans to "reject discrimination" and to avoid defining the US war against extremism as "a war between America and Islam".
It will try to avoid defining talent either too broadly or too narrowly but simply take it to mean brainpower the ability to solve complex problems or invent new solutions.
The Met, in an effort to avoid defining the collection solely in terms of religion, chose an unusually long title for its spaces, "The Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Later South Asia".
