Found 5 hits - Term: shunning, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shun \shun\, v. t. imp. p. p. shunned; p. pr. vb. n.
shunning. oe. shunien, schunien, schonien, as. scunian,
sceonian; cf. d. schuinen to slepe, schuin oblique, sloping,
icel. skunda, skynda, to hasten. cf. schooner, scoundrel,
shunt.
to avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to
escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.
1913 webster
i am pure from the blood of all men. for i have not
shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of god.
--acts xx.
26,27.
1913 webster
scarcity and want shall shun you. --shak.
1913 webster
syn: see avoid.
1913 webster
see also:
shunned shunning schooner scoundrel shunt avoid
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
shun
v 1: avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of syn: eschew
2: expel from a community or group syn: banish, ban, ostracize,
ostracise, cast out, blackball
also: shunning, shunned
see also:
eschew banish ban ostracize ostracise cast out
blackball shunning shunned
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
shunning
n : deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from
happening syn: avoidance, turning away, dodging
see also:
avoidance turning away dodging
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
shunning
see shun
see also:
shun
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
32 moby thesaurus words for "shunning":
avoidance, avoiding reaction, circumvention, defense mechanism,
dodge, duck, elusion, elusiveness, equivocation, escape, eschewal,
evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, forbearance, forestalling,
forestallment, getting around, jink, neutrality, nonintervention,
noninvolvement, prevention, refraining, runaround, shunting off,
shy, sidestep, sidetracking, slip, the runaround, zigzag
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