'Shunning' definitions:
Definition of 'shunning'
From: WordNet
noun
Deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening [syn: avoidance, turning away, shunning, dodging]
Definition of 'Shunning'
From: GCIDE
- Shun \Shun\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shunned; p. pr. & vb. n. Shunning.] [OE. shunien, schunien, schonien, AS. scunian, sceonian; cf. D. schuinen to slepe, schuin oblique, sloping, Icel. skunda, skynda, to hasten. Cf. Schooner, Scoundrel, Shunt.] To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Scarcity and want shall shun you. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: See Avoid. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'shunning'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- circumvention,
- defense mechanism,
- dodge,
- duck,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- equivocation,
- escape,
- eschewal,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasiveness,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- getting around,
- jink,
- neutrality,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- prevention,
- refraining,
- runaround,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- the runaround,
- zigzag