Noun: shunning shú-ning
- Deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
"His shunning of social media improved his mental health";
- avoidance, turning away, dodging
- Avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
"shun fattening foods if you want to lose weight";
- eschew
- Expel from a community or group
"The community shunned the family after the scandal";
- banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise [Brit], cast out, blackball, pill [slang]
Derived forms: shunnings
Type of: avoid, expel, kick out [informal], rejection, throw out
Encyclopedia: Shunning
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