Definition of shun

"shun" in the verb sense

1. shun, eschew

avoid and stay away from deliberately stay clear of

2. banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball

expel from a community or group

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Quotations for shun

Timely advised, the coming evil shun;
Better not do the deed, than weep it done. [ Prior ]

Reason the hoary dotard's dull directress,
That loses all, because she hazards nothing;
Reason! the timorous pilot, that, to shun
The rocks of life, forever flies the port. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Avoid extremes, and shun the fault of such
Who still are pleased too little or too much. [ Pope ]

The dews of the evening most carefully shun,
Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. [ Chesterfield ]

Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. [ Dryden ]

Shun equally a sombre air and vivacious sallies. [ Marcus Antoninus ]

The love of praise, however concealed by art
Reigns, more or less, and glows, in every heart:
The proud, to gain it, toils on toils endure;
The modest shun it, but to make it sure. [ Young ]

As one who in some frightful dream would shun
His pressing foe, labors in vain to run
And his own slowness in his sleep bemoans.
In short thick sighs, weak cries, and tender groans. [ Dryden ]

Shun idleness: it is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. [ Voltaire ]

Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful. [ Tupper ]

Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun. [ Gregory ]

Ripening love is the stillest; the shady flowers in this spring, as in the other, shun sunlight. [ Jean Paul ]

A God speaks softly in our breast; softly, yet distinctly, shows us what to hold by and what to shun. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it. [ Cicero ]

We must be neat in our person, though not over particular; and let us shun boorish and ungenteel slovenliness. [ Cicero ]

Pleasure and pain, the good, and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

Shun to seek what is hid in the Womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee. [ Horace ]

But since, however protracted, death will come. Why fondly study, with ingenious pains. To put it off? - To breathe a little longer is to defer our fate, but not to shun it. [ Hannah More ]

shun in Scrabble®

The word shun is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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shun in Words With Friends™

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Words within the letters of shun

2 letter words in shun (4 words)

3 letter words in shun (3 words)

4 letter words in shun (1 word)

shun + 1 blank (5 words)

Words containing the sequence shun

Words with shun in them (3 words)

Words that end with shun (1 word)

Word Growth involving shun

Shorter words in shun

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Longer words containing shun

dachshund dachshunds

shunned

shunner shunners

shunning

shuns

shunt shunted

shunt shunter shunters

shunt shunting

shunt shunts