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# shunning

«shunning» in Mova's school dictionary: **keeping away from someone or something on purpose, and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb form (the -ing form of shun: shun, shuns, shunned, shunning)

### meaning for a pupil

Shunning means keeping away from someone or something on purpose, and refusing to have anything to do with it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shunning/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales a character avoids work or company by choice; to shun a thing is to keep well clear of it.

### examples

- "Are you seeking work or shunning work?" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shunning/#x1)
- She was shunning her old friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shunning/#x2)
- He kept shunning the crowds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shunning/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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