Antonyms for shun
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : shuhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : ʃʌn |
Definition of shun
Origin :- Old English scunian "to shun, avoid; abhor; desist, abstain; to hide, seek safety by concealment," of uncertain origin; not found in any other language. Perhaps ultimately from PIE root *skeu- "to cover, to hide." Related: Shunned; shunning. A shun-pike (American English, 1911) was a road constructed to avoid tolls.
- verb avoid, ignore
- Above all, shun the snares of women, for they are ever set for the foolish feet of the young.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- I have been early taught to shun all allusion to his memory.
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- He had shunned her presence from the first: and she had grown now to shun him.
- Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
- Should a woman you scarcely know try the trick on you—shun her.
- Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
- But for that end he must move through the living world—not shun it.
- Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
- I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Is not the world God's world that you must shun it as if the Devil had fashioned it?
- Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini
- Ay—it is the way of truth to hurt, which is why, hating pain, we shun truth so often.
- Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini
- I would not only shun every evil, but every appearance of evil, or what might be construed into an appearance.
- Extract from : « The Prison Chaplaincy, And Its Experiences » by Hosea Quinby
- A gleam like laughter came into her eyes; nor did she shun his kindling gaze.
- Extract from : « The Strollers » by Frederic S. Isham
Synonyms for shun
- bilk
- cold-shoulder
- cut
- decline
- despise
- disdain
- ditch
- dodge
- double
- duck
- elude
- escape
- eschew
- evade
- get around
- give a wide berth
- give the runaround
- have no part of
- have nothing to do with
- hide out
- keep away from
- keep clear of
- neglect
- palm off
- pass up
- refuse
- reject
- scorn
- shake
- shake off
- shy
- snub
- stall
- stand aloof from
- stay shy of
- steer clear of
- turn back on
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