SHUNNING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

Synonyms:

avoidance; dodging; shunning; turning away

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("shunning" is a kind of...):

rejection (the act of rejecting something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shunning"):

aversion; averting (the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away)

escape (an avoidance of danger or difficulty)

near thing (something that barely avoids failure or disaster)

Derivation:

shun (avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of)

-ing form of the verb shun