Shirk vs Recede - What's the difference?
shirk | recede |
To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
* Hare
To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
* Byron
To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
* Bishop Rainbow
To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
* Dryden
* Bentley
To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
To take back.
As verbs the difference between shirk and recede
is that shirk is to avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc; to stay away from while recede is .As a noun shirk
is one who shirks or shirk can be (islam) the unforgivable sin of idolatry.shirk
English
Etymology 1
First attested use in 1625 – 1635, apparently from association with shark (verb form), or from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- the usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties
- If you have a job, don't shirk from it by staying off work.
- One of the cities shirked from the league.
- You that never heard the call of any vocation, that shirk living from others, but time from yourselves.
Synonyms
* blow off (US) * goldbrick (dated)See also
* malingerEtymology 2
(etyl) (širk , "idolatry").recede
English
Verb
(reced)- Like the hollow roar / Of tides receding from the instituted shore.
- All bodies moved circularly endeavour to recede from the center.
- to recede conquered territory