Vocabulary
Shun
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
persistently avoid, ignore, or reject (someone or something) through antipathy or caution.
Urdu meaning
پرہیز کرنا، اجتناب کرنا، بچنا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The Chinese leader stressed the need for the organisation to work towards a `more just and equitable global governance system` and urged regional leaders to shun a `Cold War mentality`.
- Mr Modi will have to shun brinkmanship and his `new normal` for Pakistan, which has proven twice (Balakot and the recent four-day war) that it has the capacity and will to take India head on.
- In Pakistan, the government cannot hide behind the nonratification of the 1951Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol to shun its obligations under international humanitarian laws.
- Learners, as per human nature, eventually shun irrelevant yet compulsory subjects that are taught from school through to university.
- The boycott of apartheid South Africa worked, and conscientious people worldwide should also shun Israel and its allies until the genocide in the occupied territories is permanently halted.
Synonyms
avoid, evade, eschew, steer clear of, shy away from, fight shy of, recoil from, keep away from,
Antonyms
accept, seek, welcome
Curator example
“he shunned fashionable society”
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