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What does shun mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word shun? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To avoid, especially persistently.
  2. (transitive) To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
  3. (transitive) To screen, hide.
  4. (transitive) To shove, push.
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He has the rare ability to shun irrelevant waffle, to identify the important problems and produce important solutions.
Tourists will continue to shun the disgusting stock of hotels that are being constructed.
If people on middle incomes continue to shun inner cities, those areas will face a bleak future.
In a position to shun the cash bribes of big business, he's now impervious to their threats.
Is it a result of our liberation from the chains of domestic drudgery that so many women shun skirts these days?
Whether you welcome this prince of silly or shun him as a hopeless jester, on stage his outlandish world cannot fail to charm.

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