shun

Verb

Meaning

To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

eschew avoid decline reject refuse evade disregard abstain banish forbear ostracize spurn blackball cast out ostracise
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Antonyms

inquisition buss enquirer sue panhandle corpus
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Hypernyms

avoid expel throw out kick out

Phrases with the word

shun a chance shun a risk shun the risk shun tak shun the chance

Derivatives

shunned shunning

Anagrams

USNH Huns

Examples

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier. Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. Ernest Hemingway

I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. Samuel Johnson

They who shun the smoke often fall into the fire. Italian Proverb

Rejoice in little, shun what is extreme; the ship rides safest in a little stream. Dutch Proverb

The wicked shun the light as the devil does the cross. Dutch Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Shumpert Shumsk Shumway shun a chance shun a risk shun giku