| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| shun |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  sh n |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: shunned, shun·ning, shuns
To avoid deliberately; keep away from. See synonyms at escape. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English shunnen, from Old English scunian, to abhor. | | OTHER FORMS: | shun ner —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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