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SHUNNING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
Synonyms:
avoidance; dodging; shunning; turning away
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("shunning" is a kind of...):
rejection (the act of rejecting something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shunning"):
aversion; averting (the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away)
escape (an avoidance of danger or difficulty)
near thing (something that barely avoids failure or disaster)
Derivation:
shun (avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb shun
