shunning (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *shunning*:
NOUN	act	shunning, avoidance, turning away, dodging	deliberately avoiding / avoiding

shunning > pronunciation
Sounds	shah'nihng
Rhymes	abducting ... zoning: 2044 rhymes with ihng...

English > *shunning*: 1 sense > noun 1, act
Meaning	deliberately avoiding / avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening.
Synonyms	avoidance, turning away, dodging
Narrower	aversion, averting	The act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away
	escape	An avoidance of danger or difficulty / difficulty
	near thing	Something that barely avoids failure or disaster
Broader	rejection	The act of rejecting something
Spanish	evitación, sorteo
Catalan	defugiment, evitació, sorteig
Verbs	shun	avoid and stay away from deliberately

HyperDic: shunning