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Another word for shun

Verb
    2. See also:

    avoid

    Antonyms:
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Sentence Examples

  • However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

  • He that would live to the next world must shun this.

  • The same fear often led him to shun all society for days at a time; but frequently he would apply to "professors" for spiritual direction and consolation.

  • His own interactions with deities left him more than willing to shun them, if at all possible.

  • Even wild ibex have been known to stray among the herds of goats, although they shun the society of chamois.

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