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# shun

«shun» in Mova's school dictionary: **to keep away from them on purpose and refuse to talk to them** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (shun, shuns, shunned, shunning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To shun someone is to keep away from them on purpose and refuse to talk to them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shun/#m1)

2) To shun something is to avoid it: «She shuns the spotlight». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shun/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and history, a character may be shunned by a village for being different, which is a kind of bullying. In wellbeing lessons, pupils discuss how being shunned feels and how to include others. In formal writing it means «avoid». Phrases: «shunned by», «shun publicity», «shun the limelight».

### examples

- The other children shunned him because he was new. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shun/#x1)
- In the story, the village shunned the old woman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shun/#x2)
- Some animals shun bright light and hide during the day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shun/#x3)
- She shuns fast food and eats healthily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shun/#x4)
- Being shunned by your friends can feel very lonely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shun/#x5)
- We should not shun someone just because they are different. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shun/#x6)
- Be wise and shun the quack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shun/#x7)

### note

Regular verb; double the «n»: shunned, shunning. A bit formal or literary; everyday words are «avoid», «ignore», «leave out». Shunning on purpose to hurt someone is a form of bullying.

### In the corpora

- [It sounds right, but in English the /shun/ ending is almost never spelled «shun».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/1/)
- [The /shun/ ending is spelled -tion, -sion, -ssion or -cian, almost never «shun».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shun» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shun/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.