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Shun vs Shrank - What's the difference?

shun | shrank |

As a verb shrank is

(shrink).

As a noun shrank is

(us|pennsylvania dutch english) a large highly decorative dutch or german-style piece of furniture, which combines aspects of a clothing wardrobe, curio, and cabinet.

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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    shrank

    English

    Etymology 1

    See (l)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (shrink)
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl); cognate to (etyl) Schrank.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, Pennsylvania Dutch English) A large highly decorative Dutch or German-style piece of furniture, which combines aspects of a clothing wardrobe, curio, and cabinet.
  • References

    * The Pennsylvania Dutch Country , By Irwin Richman, 2004, pages 102-103.[http://books.google.com/books?id=Edm413zzPtUC&pg=PA103&dq=%22Shrunk+German+furniture%22&ei=dfPISsTWNILckATtgv2rAw
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