shun
English
Etymology
From Middle English shǒnen (“decline to do, avoid, fear”), from Old English scunian, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewdʰ- (“to cover, wrap, encase”), from *(s)kew- (“to cover, hide”); if so, cognate with Old English hȳdan (“to hide, conceal, preserve”).
Pronunciation
Verb
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- (transitive) To avoid, especially persistently.
- Acrophobes shun mountaineering.
- 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
- British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
- (transitive) To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
- (transitive) To screen, hide.
- (transitive) To shove, push.
Derived terms
Translations
to avoid
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to escape
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to screen, hide
to shove, push
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References
- “shun”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “shun”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
shun
Mandarin
Romanization
shun
- Nonstandard spelling of shǔn.
- Nonstandard spelling of shùn.
Usage notes
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
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