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What does shun mean?

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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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Tourists will continue to shun the disgusting stock of hotels that are being constructed.
Stoic, perseverant and disciplined, they are a proud people of few words who shun the limelight.
Is it a result of our liberation from the chains of domestic drudgery that so many women shun skirts these days?
Many business executives now shun the major airlines and favour the no-frills operators.
They shun the marriage counselor and wastewater treatment and harm the conjugality of watershed love.
John Calvin's faith offers predestined salvation for a lucky few and requires adherents to work hard and shun ostentation.

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