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Shunned vs Escaped - What's the difference?

shunned | escaped |

As verbs the difference between shunned and escaped

is that shunned is (shun) while escaped is (escape).

As an adjective escaped is

that or who has escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement.

shunned

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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    escaped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (escape)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • That or who has escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement.
    • People are being warned not to approach the escaped prisoner.