Usually means: Avoid, reject, or ignore deliberately.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word shun:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. shun: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shun: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shun: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. 'shun, shun: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shun: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shun, shun: Wordnik
  7. shun: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. shun: Wiktionary
  9. shun: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shun: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shun: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shun: Dictionary.com
  13. shun: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. shun: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Shun (Chinese leader), Shun (band), Shun (given name), Shun (song), Shun: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shun: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shun: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shun: Rhymezone
  19. Shun: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. shun: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. shun: Free Dictionary
  22. shun: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. shun: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shun (disambiguation), shun: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shun (disambiguation), Shun: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shun: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To avoid, especially persistently; ostracize.
verb:  (transitive) To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
verb:  (transitive) To screen, hide.
verb:  (transitive) To shove, push.

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