shun Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
    eschew.
  2. verb expel from a community or group
    ostracize; blackball; cast out; ban; ostracise; banish.

WordNet

Shun transitive verb
Etymology
OE. shunien, schunien, schonien, AS. scunian, sceonian; cf. D. schuinen to slepe, schuin oblique, sloping, Icel. skunda, skynda, to hasten. Cf. Schooner, Scoundrel, Shunt.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Shunned ; present participle & verbal noun Shunning
Definitions
  1. To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.
    I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. Acts xx. 26,27.
    Scarcity and want shall shun you. Shak.
    Syn. -- See Avoid.

Webster 1913