Shun vs Sidestep - What's the difference?
shun | sidestep |
To avoid, especially persistently.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
To screen, hide.
To shove, push.
To step to the side.
*1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 180:
*:I He sidestepped , and I went in.
To avoid or dodge.
:They sidestepped the issue.
*{{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 1
, author=Clive Lindsay
, title=Kilmarnock 1 - 2 St Johnstone
, work=BBC Sport
In transitive terms the difference between shun and sidestep
is that shun is to shove, push while sidestep is to avoid or dodge.As a noun sidestep is
a step to the side.shun
English
Verb
(shunn)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.}}
Derived terms
* shunless * shunnable * shunnerReferences
* *Anagrams
* ----sidestep
English
Verb
(sidestepp)citation, page= , passage=Kilmarnock ought to have taken the lead on the stroke of half-time when Hefferman set up Kroca and, although the defender neatly sidestepped his marker, he fired straight into the chest of Enckelman.}}