Definition of shun

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

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Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer..
Shunting :: Shunting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shun.
Decline :: Decline (v. i.) To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle..
Shunted :: Shunted (imp. & p. p.) of Shun.
Shunned :: Shunned (imp. & p. p.) of Shu.
Shunless :: Shunless (a.) Not to be shunned; inevitable; unavoidable.
Eschew :: Eschew (a.) To shun; to avoid, as something wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self clear of..
Assibilation :: Assibilation (n.) Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to -shun, duke to ditch..
Unavoidable :: Unavoidable (a.) Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented; inevitable; necessary; as, unavoidable troubles..
Avoidable :: Avoidable (a.) Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped..
Shunt :: Shunt (v. i.) To go aside; to turn off.
Noonshun :: Noonshun (n.) See Nunchion.
Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them..
Fly :: Fly (v. t.) To fly or flee from; to shun; to avoid.
Unavoided :: Unavoided (a.) Not avoided or shunned.
Turn-out :: Turn-out (n.) A short side track on a railroad, which may be occupied by one train while another is passing on a main track; a shunt; a siding; a switch..
Shun :: Shun (v. t.) To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice..
Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.
Evite :: Evite (v. t.) To shun.
Inevitability :: Inevitability (n.) Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness.
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