Shun
[ʃʌn]
Definition
(verb.) avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of.
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Definition
(v. t.) To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Avoid (in a positive sense or denoting positive exertion), evade, escape, elude, eschew, get clear of, get out of the way of, escape from.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Avoid, escape, discard, eschew, keep_clear_of, elude
ANT:Court, seek, affect
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Definition
v.t. to avoid: to keep clear of: to neglect:—pr.p. shun′ning; pa.t. and pa.p. shunned.—adj. Shun′less (Shak.) not able to be shunned: unavoidable.—ns. Shun′ner; Shun′pike a byroad.
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Examples
- Sordid in my grief, sordid in my love, sordid in my miserable escape from the darker side of both, oh see the ruin I am, and hate me, shun me! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Every man's interest would prompt him to seek the advantageous, and to shun the disadvantageous employment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They are closet-skeletons which we keep and shun. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- See ye how dexterously they avail themselves of every cover which a tree or bush affords, and shun exposing themselves to the shot of our cross-bows? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Do we not shun the street version of a fine melody? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Why should he shun it? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- So you shun me? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She ever shunned high-roads, and sought byways and lonely lanes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- America does not play with ideas; generous speculation is regarded as insincere, and shunned as if it might endanger the optimism which underlies success. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I am shunned when I visit her; she withdraws from my reach. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Shirley can feel when she is slighted and shunned. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I am malicious because I am miserable; am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I will not have this room shunned as if it were infected, at the pleasure of a child. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I felt veneration for St. John--veneration so strong that its impetus thrust me at once to the point I had so long shunned. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They seldom addressed each other, shunning explanation, each fearing any communication the other might make. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- So, keeping to byways, and shunning human approach, this troublesome old woman hid herself, and fared on all through the dreary day. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Those who support a hypothesis should bring it to the test of rigid verification, avoiding skepticism, shunning credulity. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He was a man of singular habits, shunning company and very seldom going out. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- A dog, that avoids fire and precipices, that shuns strangers, and caresses his master, affords us an instance of the first kind. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- When frightened it instinctively shuns the water, as though it feared especially its aquatic enemies. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Editor: Melinda