| VERB | social | shrink from, fiddle, shirk, goldbrick | avoid (one's assigned duties) |
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| Meaning | avoid (one's assigned duties). | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | fiddle, shirk, goldbrick | |
| Narrower | malinger, skulk | avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill |
| scrimshank | (British military language) avoid work | |
| slack | avoid responsibilities and work, be idle | |
| Broader | avoid | Refrain from doing something |
| Spanish | correr, eludir, esquivar, evadir | |
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