shunning

shun

S0378700 (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).

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

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shun′ner n.

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shunning - deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happeningavoidance, turning away, dodgingrejection - the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection"aversion, averting - the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away; "averting her gaze meant that she was angry"escape - an avoidance of danger or difficulty; "that was a narrow escape"near thing - something that barely avoids failure or disaster