shun
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 →
2) To shun something is to avoid it: «She shuns the spotlight». tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Job is praised as someone who turned away from evil, which is part of what makes him "whole-hearted and upright." Tradition holds that fear of God means keeping away from wrongdoing. In the primary 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
- THERE was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was whole-hearted and upright, and one that feared God, and shunned evil. (Writings JOB.1.1, JPS 1917) tree →
- The other children shunned him because he was new. tree →
- In the story, the village shunned the old woman. tree →
- Some animals shun bright light and hide during the day. tree →
- She shuns fast food and eats healthily. tree →
- Being shunned by your friends can feel very lonely. tree →
- We should not shun someone just because they are different. tree →
- Be wise and shun the quack. tree →
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».
- The /shun/ ending is spelled -tion, -sion, -ssion or -cian, almost never «shun».
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «shun» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.