Shun

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ÊŒn

Origin

From Old English scunian. Cognate with Old Norse skunde/skynde ("to hasten").

Full definition of shun

Verb

1. (transitive) To avoid, especially persistently.
   Acrophobes shun mountaineering.
• 2013-08-10, Lexington, Keeping the mighty honest, 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.
2. (transitive) To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
3. (transitive) To screen, hide.
4. (transitive) To shove, push.

Derived terms

• shunless
• shunnable
• shunner

Anagrams

• Huns