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shun

(shŭn)

tr.v. shunned, shun·ning, shuns

1. To avoid using, accepting, engaging in, or partaking of: shun someone's advice; shun public recognition; shun fatty foods.

2. To refuse to accept socially; avoid having social contact with: "Oddly, by being one of the few players who spoke candidly about the business of baseball, he was often shunned by the business world itself" (David Grann).

3. To stay away from; not go to: "He shunned the elevator and started up the broad marble stairs" (Frederick Irving Anderson).

[Middle English shunnen, from Old English scunian, to abhor.]

shun′ner n.

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shun

(ʃʌn)

vb, shuns, shunning or shunned

(tr) to avoid deliberately; keep away from

[Old English scunian, of obscure origin]

ˈshunnable adj

ˈshunner n

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shun

(ʃʌn)

v.t. shunned, shun•ning.

to keep away from; take pains to avoid.

[before 950; Old English scunian]

shun′na•ble, adj.

shun′ner, n.

Shun

(ʃun)

n.

See under Yao ¹.

shun

Past participle: shunned
Gerund: shunning

Imperative
shun
shun

Present
I shun
you shun
he/she/it shuns
we shun
you shun
they shun

Preterite
I shunned
you shunned
he/she/it shunned
we shunned
you shunned
they shunned

Present Continuous
I am shunning
you are shunning
he/she/it is shunning
we are shunning
you are shunning
they are shunning

Present Perfect
I have shunned
you have shunned
he/she/it has shunned
we have shunned
you have shunned
they have shunned

Past Continuous
I was shunning
you were shunning
he/she/it was shunning
we were shunning
you were shunning
they were shunning

Past Perfect
I had shunned
you had shunned
he/she/it had shunned
we had shunned
you had shunned
they had shunned

Future
I will shun
you will shun
he/she/it will shun
we will shun
you will shun
they will shun

Future Perfect
I will have shunned
you will have shunned
he/she/it will have shunned
we will have shunned
you will have shunned
they will have shunned

Future Continuous
I will be shunning
you will be shunning
he/she/it will be shunning
we will be shunning
you will be shunning
they will be shunning

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been shunning
you have been shunning
he/she/it has been shunning
we have been shunning
you have been shunning
they have been shunning

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been shunning
you will have been shunning
he/she/it will have been shunning
we will have been shunning
you will have been shunning
they will have been shunning

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been shunning
you had been shunning
he/she/it had been shunning
we had been shunning
you had been shunning
they had been shunning

Conditional
I would shun
you would shun
he/she/it would shun
we would shun
you would shun
they would shun

Past Conditional
I would have shunned
you would have shunned
he/she/it would have shunned
we would have shunned
you would have shunned
they would have shunned

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Verb	1.	shun - avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of eschew avoid - stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her"
	2.	shun - expel from a community or group banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, ban expel, kick out, throw out - force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his native country"

shun

verb avoid, steer clear of, keep away from, snub, evade, eschew, shy away from, brush off, cold-shoulder, have no part in, fight shy of, give (someone or something) a wide berth, body-swerve (Scot.), give (someone) the brush-off, keep your distance from From that time forward everybody shunned him.

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shun

verb

1. To keep away from:

avoid, burke, bypass, circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, escape, eschew, evade, get around.

Idioms: fight shy of, give a wide berth to, have no truck with, keep clear of.

2. To slight (someone) deliberately:

cut, rebuff, snub, spurn.

Informal: coldshoulder.

Idioms: close the door on, give someone the cold shoulder, give someone the go-by, turn one's back on.

Translations

يَتَجَنَّب

vyhýbat se

undgå

meiden

fuir refuser rejeter repousser

forîast

evitare

izvairītiesvairīties

sky som pesten

беречься избегать избежать остерегаться сторониться

sakınmakuzak durmak

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shun

[ʃʌn] VT

1. (= reject) [+ person] → rechazar
to feel shunned by the world → sentirse rechazado por la gente

2. (= avoid) [+ work] → evitar; [+ publicity] → rehuir
to shun doing sth → evitar hacer algo

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shun

[ˈʃʌn] vt → éviter, fuir

shun

vt → meiden; publicity, light → scheuen; to be shunned by the world → ausgestoßen sein

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shun

[ʃʌn] vt (person, work, publicity) → evitare, sfuggire; (obligation) → sottrarsi a

shun

(ʃan) verb – past tense, past participle shunned –

to avoid or keep away from.

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Although my book is intended mainly for the en- tertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in.

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Beyond the few lazy and reckless vagabonds with whom he sauntered away his time in the fields, or sotted in the ale-house, he had not a single friend or acquaintance; no one cared to speak to the man whom many feared, and every one detested--and Edmunds was shunned by all.

Neighbours were as kind as they were wont to be of old, but she shunned their greetings with averted head.

Many a look was turned towards him, and many a doubtful glance he cast on either side to see whether any knew and shunned him.

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Vanguards of Chil!) They that lagged behind the scent--they that ran before, They that shunned the level horn--they that overbore.

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The doubt did not prevent him from dangling at the door-post, in my consciousness, and many a time I shunned the sight of this problematical suicide by keeping my eyes fastened on the book before me.

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Sabin, who neither shunned nor courted observation, watched her with a grim smile which was not devoid of bitterness.

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That which to him was a great evil, to be carefully shunned, was to me a great good, to be diligently sought; and the argument which he so warmly urged, against my learning to read, only served to inspire me with a desire and determina- tion to learn.

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They are possessed with a strange notion that they are the only true Christians in the world; as for us, they shunned us as heretics, and were under the greatest surprise at hearing us mention the Virgin Mary with the respect which is due to her, and told us that we could not be entirely barbarians since we were acquainted with the mother of God.

This discourse gave us double pleasure, both as it proved that God had confuted the accusations of our enemies, and defended us against their malice without any efforts of our own, and that the people who had shunned us with the strongest detestation were yet lovers of truth, and came to us on their own accord.

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After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there.

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Telling why she has shunned the glamour to return to documentaries, she hinted she had shunned promotion deals that clashed with her beliefs.