es·chew 
(ĕ-sh, ĕs-ch)
(ĕ-sh, ĕs-ch)tr.v. es·chewed, es·chew·ing, es·chews
1. To avoid using, accepting, participating in, or partaking of: “Italian tends to eschew the sort of polite euphemisms in which English glories” (David Leavitt). See Synonyms at evade.
2. To refrain from (doing something).
[Middle English escheuen, from Old French eschivir, of Germanic origin; akin to akin to SHY1.]
es·chewal (-əl) n.