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Shun vs Eschew - What's the difference?

shun | eschew |

As verbs the difference between shun and eschew

is that shun is to avoid, especially persistently while eschew is to avoid; to shun, to shy away from.

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

    References

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    Anagrams

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    eschew

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (formal) To avoid; to shun, to shy away from.

    • Usage notes

    * The verb is not normally applied to the avoidance or shunning of a person or physical object, but rather, only to the avoidance or shunning of an idea, concept, or other intangible.

    Quotations

    {{timeline , 1500s=1599 , 1900s=1927 , 2010s=2014}} * *: What cannot be eschew’d must be embrac’d. * 1927 , *: He could afford no servants, and would admit but few visitors to his absolute solitude; eschewing close friendships and receiving his rare acquaintances in one of the three ground-floor rooms which he kept in order. * '>citation

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * shy

    References