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Shins vs Shuns - What's the difference?

shins | shuns |

As verbs the difference between shins and shuns

is that shins is (shin) while shuns is (shun).

As a noun shins

is .

shins

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (shin)

    • shuns

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (shun)

    • shun

    English

    Verb

    (shunn)
  • To avoid, especially persistently.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
    • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=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.}}
  • To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
  • To screen, hide.
  • To shove, push.

    • Derived terms

    * shunless * shunnable * shunner

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