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

banish eschew ostracize blackball cast out ostracise dodge parry duck beware distance cut avoid escape decline

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avoid expel throw out kick out

shunned shunning

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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

Shumpert Shumsk Shumway shun a chance shun a risk shun giku