nnoun.actdeliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happeningSynset:avoidance dodging turning away
Derivationally Related Form:dodgeshunavoid
Hypernyms:rejection
Inherited Hypernyms:avoidancerejectionacteventpsychological featureabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:aversionavertingescapenear thing
Full Hyponyms:aversionescapenear thing
vverb.communicationavoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear ofSynset:eschew shun
Derivationally Related Form:shunning
Hypernyms:avoid
Inherited Hypernyms:shunavoid
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s somebody
vverb.socialexpel from a community or groupSynset:ban banish blackball cast out ostracise ostracize shun
Derivationally Related Form:ostracismbanishmentblackball
Hypernyms:expel kick out throw out
Inherited Hypernyms:banishexpelmove
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody