Shun will take over my job while I'm away.
Source: tatoeba (247058)
Shun
//ʃʌn//
Synonyms for "shun" (81 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (40)
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Translations
86 translations across 28 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- Избягвам verb (to escape)
- отбягвам verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 畏避 verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Czech
4 entries- schovat verb (to screen, hide)
- ukrýt verb (to screen, hide)
- ukrývat verb (to screen, hide)
- unikat verb (to escape)
Danish
1 entries- sky verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Dutch
2 entries- ontwijken verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- vermijden verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Esperanto
1 entries- eviti verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Finnish
1 entries- karttaa verb (to avoid, ostracize)
French
4 entries- esquiver verb (to escape)
- fuir verb (to escape)
- rejeter verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- éviter verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Galician
2 entries- escapar verb (to escape)
- evitar verb (to avoid, ostracize)
German
4 entries- abschirmen verb (to screen, hide)
- aus dem Weg gehen verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- aus dem Weg gehen verb (to escape)
- ausschließen verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌱𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Greek
2 entries- αποφεύγω verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- αποφεύγω verb (to escape)
Hungarian
3 entries- elkerül verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- kerül verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- visszariad verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Italian
4 entries- detestare verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- eludere verb (to escape)
- evitare verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- schivare verb (to escape)
Japanese
2 entries- 忌む verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- 忌避する verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Latin
1 entries- ēvītō verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Middle English
1 entries- schonen verb (to escape)
Norwegian
2 entries- sky verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- unngå verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- قاچمق verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- قاچمق verb (to escape)
Polish
2 entries- stronić verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- unikać verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Portuguese
1 entries- evitar verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Romanian
4 entries- ascunde verb (to screen, hide)
- evada verb (to escape)
- evita verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- împinge verb (to shove, push)
Russian
4 entries- бере́чься verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- избега́ть verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- избега́ть verb (to escape)
- избежа́ть verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Slovak
3 entries- strániť sa verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- utekať verb (to escape)
- vyhýbať sa verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Spanish
1 entries- evitar verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Swedish
2 entries- sky verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- skygga verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Turkish
4 entries- kaçmak verb (to escape)
- kaçınmak verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- sakınmak verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- uzak durmak verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Ukrainian
3 entries- остеріга́тися verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- уника́ти verb (to avoid, ostracize)
- цура́тися verb (to avoid, ostracize)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Please don’t shun me because I have this gift.
Source: tatoeba (6112558)
"If yet he lives and looks upon the sun, / nor cruel death hath snatched him from the light, / no fear have we, nor need hast thou to shun / a Trojan guest, or rue kin offices begun."
Source: tatoeba (6796276)
"One alone, / Celaeno, sings of famine foul and dread, / a nameless prodigy, a plague unknown. / What perils first to shun? what path to tread, / to win deliverance from such toils?"
Source: tatoeba (7066039)
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