What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Shunned vs Scaped - What's the difference?

shunned | scaped |

As verbs the difference between shunned and scaped

is that shunned is (shun) while scaped is (scape).

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

    References

    * *

    Anagrams

    * ----

    scaped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (scape)
  • Anagrams

    *

    scape

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root
  • the lowest part of an insect's antenna
  • (architecture) the shaft of a column
  • (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
  • Etymology 2

    Formed by aphesis from escape . (etystub)

    Verb

    (scap)
  • (archaic) to escape
  • *17th century , John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal :
  • *:No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
  • *:As I have seen in one autumnal face.
  • *:Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape,
  • *:This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape .
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) escape
  • * Shakespeare
  • I spake of most disastrous chances, Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
  • (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
  • (Donne)
  • (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
  • * Milton
  • Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.
  • (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.
  • (Shakespeare)
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * * * ----