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Present participle for to keep away from something
Present participle for to cease, or cause to cease, being dependent on (something)
Present participle for to be unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking
Present participle for to be reluctant to do something
Present participle for to be afraid of someone or something when considering them to be dangerous, painful, or harmful
Present participle for to show or feel repugnance for or resistance to something
Present participle for to feel contempt or a deep repugnance for
Present participle for to hesitate or refuse to proceed due to fear, aversion, or reluctance
Present participle for to fail to perform a promised or planned action due to lack of courage
Present participle for to renege or change one's mind on a position, agreement or promise
Present participle for to feel distaste for or hostility towards
Present participle for to be in a state of great apprehension or anxiety
Present participle for to avoid or get out of a responsibility
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Present participle for to keep away from something
avoiding
shunning
spurning
rejecting
shirking
eschewing
turning away from
balking at
recoiling from
steering clear of
evading
dodging
staying away from
keeping clear of
shying from
keeping away from
keeping one's distance from
having nothing to do with
circumventing
bypassing
sidestepping
getting around
giving a wide berth to
snubbing
shying away from
staying shy of
turning back on
fighting shy of
having no part of
ignoring
cold-shouldering
shaking off
bilking
refusing
giving someone the brush-off
giving someone the go-by
cutting dead
eluding
cutting someone cold
hiding from
giving the cold shoulder to
telling someone where to get off
freezing out
giving the brush
ostracizing
US
neglecting
giving the bum's rush
having no part in
brushing off
palming off
giving a wide berth
standing aloof from
ostracising
UK
scorning
cutting
knocking back
giving the cold shoulder
turning down
not touching
stiff-arming
leaving alone
staying clear of
repudiating
sending to Coventry
disdaining
dismissing
snouting
giving the runaround
declining
ditching
putting down
passing up
rebuffing
circumnavigating
refraining from
stopping
giving something a miss
keeping at arm's length
preventing
averting
desisting
skipping out on
escaping
precluding
staying away
restraining from
steering clear
abstaining from
skipping
abstaining
withstanding
resisting
skirting
forbearing
helping
getting out of
warding off
forbearing from
fending off
keeping from
holding off
breaking the habit of
neutralising
UK
giving up
leaving off
counterbalancing
doing without
making up for
forgoing
shaking
prohibiting
denying oneself
withholding from
checking
nullifying
blocking
counteracting
neutralizing
US
obviating
interfering with
staving off
hindering
desisting from
arresting
impeding
anticipating
renouncing
kicking
negating
heading off
excluding
blackballing
blanking
blacklisting
coldshouldering
shutting out
slighting
cutting off
leaving out in the cold
looking past
disregarding
excommunicating
stiffing
boycotting
disowning
handing someone the frozen mitt
turning your back on
othering
debarring
canceling
US
cancelling
UK
despising
disfellowshiping
disfellowshipping
repulsing
discounting
jilting
unfollowing
casting aside
casting out
having nothing more to do with
acting cool
swearing off
breaking with
washing your hands of
looking straight through
giving the brushoff
giving someone the air
icing out
giving someone the big E
flouting
not including
banishing
expelling
having done with
disavowing
driving away
pretending not to see
pooh-poohing
making unwelcome
turning up one's nose
leaving in the cold
refusing to abide by
refusing to recognize
leaving out
banning
embargoing
barring
blacking
scouting
vetoing
interdicting
proscribing
chillin
chilling
outlawing
striking
deserting
withholding patronage
repelling
abnegating
abjuring
dropping
forsaking
unfriending
placing an embargo on
holding aloof from
imposing sanctions
passing by
refusing to take part in
looking through
taking no notice of
cutting out
not giving time of day
sloughing off
blowing off
giving someone the push
giving the elbow
binning off
paying no attention to
making light of
more ❯
“She would
shrink from
visiting him after their last argument.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cease, or cause to cease, being dependent on (something)
weaning
stopping
halting
ceasing
discontinuing
refraining from
desisting from
quitting
forbearing from
breaking off
cutting out
calling a halt to
calling it a day
giving up
abandoning
abstaining from
leaving off
knocking off
packing in
suspending
desisting
forsaking
laying off
passing up
precluding
relinquishing
renouncing
resisting
skipping
steering clear of
belaying
bypassing
finishing
keeping from
staying away from
axing
backing off from
checking out from
dropping
forgoing
giving over
holding off
packing up
pulling out of
putting a stop to
refusing
reining in
restraining from
swearing off
withholding from
calling it quits on
detaching
jacking in
kiboshing
putting an end to
surceasing from
eschewing
avoiding
shunning
forswearing
kicking
doing without
giving a wide berth to
abjuring
going without
dispensing with
abstaining
rejecting
spurning
refraining
having nothing to do with
leaving out
repudiating
forbearing
foregoing
declining
passing on
fighting shy of
not touching
leaving alone
evading
shirking
waiving
escaping
disavowing
sitting out
giving something a miss
weaseling out of
weaselling out of
staying clear of
eluding
dodging
omitting
ducking
withholding
shaking
sacrificing
finessing
keeping
abdicating
restraining
curbing
scaping
ditching
holding back
skipping out on
resisting the temptation to
getting off
stopping oneself
shying away from
shuffling out of
inhibiting
turning your back on
keeping clear of
getting around
keeping off
coming off
missing out on
letting alone
avoiding doing something
checking
going on the wagon
not doing
taking the pledge
arresting
interrupting
taking the cure
passing
denying oneself
shying from
bridling
declining to
restraining yourself
going easy
ignoring
disregarding
overlooking
cutting
disclaiming
abnegating
disdaining
denying
disaffirming
shying
gainsaying
neglecting
passing over
skimming over
fast forwarding
letting well enough alone
reneging on
having no truck with
disowning
deserting
turning back on
opting out
casting aside
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to be unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking
baulking
UK
balking
US
eschewing
desisting
disdaining
jibbing
resisting
scorning
refusing
demurring from
quailing at
refusing to
shying away
drawing back from
jibbing at
reining in
scrupling to
shying from
stopping short
turning down
hating to
taking exception to
drawing the line at
Verb
▲
Present participle for to be reluctant to do something
hesitating
scrupling
demurring from
baulking at
boggling at
feeling uneasy about
hanging back from
having misgivings about
having qualms about
thinking twice about
having second thoughts
having qualms
blowing hot and cold
doubting
demurring
hanging back
shying away from
having reservations about
thinking twice
wavering
dithering
vacillating
faltering
teetering
staggering
halting
wabbling
wobbling
balancing
boggling
disrelishing
fretting
worrying
shying
stickling
shilly-shallying
balking at
flinching from
having scruples about
minding doing something
sticking at
vacillating about
demurring about
recoiling from
wavering about
baulking
UK
shrinking
balking
US
scrupling about
hating to
quailing at
hesitating to
shying away
fighting shy of
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to be afraid of someone or something when considering them to be dangerous, painful, or harmful
fearing
dreading
apprehending
cowering before
cringing from
feeling apprehensive about
feeling consternation about
flinching from
going in terror of
having forebodings about
living in dread of
living in fear of
panicking about
shaking in your shoes about
trembling at
trembling before
worrying about
trembling
cringing
misdoubting
shuddering
shuddering at
quailing from
cringing at the thought of
having cold feet about
cowering at
shuddering to think about
trembling to think about
quaking at
having cold feet
anticipating with horror
Verb
▲
Present participle for to show or feel repugnance for or resistance to something
rebelling
recoiling
flinching
shrinking
feeling repugnance
flinching from
pulling back
showing repugnance
pulling back from
shying away
shying away from
baulking at
feeling abhorrence at
feeling revulsion at
feeling disgust at
hesitating at
Verb
▲
Present participle for to feel contempt or a deep repugnance for
despising
abhorring
detesting
loathing
hating
execrating
disliking
abominating
scorning
deploring
disrelishing
disdaining
contemning
eschewing
reviling
misprizing
finding intolerable
looking down on
regarding with contempt
feeling contempt for
having a down on
feeling contempt
having no use for
recoiling from
having it in for
shuddering at
having an aversion to
feeling aversion to
rejecting
repudiating
regarding with disgust
feeling repugnance towards
feeling hostility to
regarding with repugnance
spurning
feeling repelled by
feeling hostile to
having a horror of
feeling revulsion to
refusing
declining
revolting
disliking greatly
feeling repugnance
having a strong aversion to
finding disgusting
having aversion to
feeling hostility toward
disliking intensely
feeling disgust for
feeling aversion towards
feeling repugnance toward
feeling animosity to
feeling disgust towards
downing on
feeling hostility towards
feeling distaste for
feeling aversion toward
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to hesitate or refuse to proceed due to fear, aversion, or reluctance
jibbing
wavering
faltering
hesitating
shying
baulking
UK
balking
US
flinching
quailing
recoiling
recoiling from
baulking at
shying away from
boggling at
demurring at
drawing back from
fighting shy of
retreating from
shying at
stopping short of
dithering
vacillating
demurring
shrinking
boggling
shilly-shallying
flinching from
having scruples about
having misgivings about
thinking twice about
hesitating to
vacillating about
scrupling about
having qualms about
hanging back
hanging back from
pausing
doubting
pussyfooting
refusing
expressing reservations
expressing reluctance
expressing misgivings
thinking twice
dragging your heels
hemming and hawing
waiting and seeing
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to fail to perform a promised or planned action due to lack of courage
bottling out
failing
chickening out
backing down
shying away
wimping out
falling at the first fence
losing courage
Verb
▲
Present participle for to renege or change one's mind on a position, agreement or promise
copping out
reneging
bypassing
escaping
sidestepping
avoiding
dodging
ducking
evading
shirking
skipping
skiving
abandoning
backpedaling
US
backpedalling
UK
bilking
cutting
declining
deserting
funking
quitting
renouncing
revoking
welshing
withdrawing
excusing
backing out
backing off
skirting round
running away from
skiving off
steering clear of
backing down
backing out of
ducking out of
getting out
getting out of
pulling out of
sliding out of
weaseling out
weaselling out
wriggling out of
giving the slip
Verb
▲
Present participle for to feel distaste for or hostility towards
disliking
hating
loathing
abhorring
despising
detesting
scorning
shunning
abominating
disfavouring
disrelishing
execrating
opposing
resenting
deploring
disfavoring
misliking
antipathizing
condemning
contemning
deprecating
disapproving
eschewing
minding
reproving
discountenancing
disesteeming
regretting
relucting
disapproving of
objecting to
disagreeing with
finding repellent
frowning upon
recoiling from
shuddering at
taking exception to
frowning on
having no liking for
holding in disfavour
finding distasteful
finding intolerable
not appreciating
not taking kindly to
regarding with disgust
regarding with distaste
having an aversion to
looking down on
not enduring
losing interest in
taking a dim view of
bearing malice toward
having hard feelings
having no stomach for
having no taste
having no taste for
not caring for
having a down on
making faces at
tutting about
tutting over
tut-tutting about
tut-tutting over
Verb
▲
Present participle for to be in a state of great apprehension or anxiety
trembling
worrying
agonising
UK
agonizing
US
fretting
fussing
quailing
stewing
losing sleep
blanching from
blenching from
Verb
▲
Present participle for to avoid or get out of a responsibility
shirking
dodging
evading
avoiding
ducking
eluding
escaping
sidestepping
shunning
shaking
bypassing
eschewing
finessing
scaping
neglecting
funking
missing
cutting
cheating
parrying
quitting
fencing
forgetting
bludging
dogging
getting around
getting out of
weaseling out of
weaselling out of
paying no attention to
running away from
wriggling out of
shuffling out of
copping out of
skimping on
paying little attention to
skiving off
leaving something undone
letting something slide
losing sight of
sliding out of
shuffling off
ducking out of
playing truant from
sloughing off
lying down on job
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