eschew

  • 61shun — I verb abhor, abstain, avoid, back away, boycott, bypass, circumvent, cold shoulder, defugere, deliberately avoid, disregard, dodge, draw back, elude, escape, eschew, evade, give a wide berth to, have no part of, have nothing to do with, hide… …

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  • 62abstain — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. forbear, refrain. See avoidance, moderation, asceticism, disuse.Ant., indulge. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. refrain, forbear, renounce, desist, forgo, withhold, avoid, stop, deny oneself, hold aloof… …

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  • 63avoid — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. keep away from, abstain from, flee from, shrink from, escape from, evade, shun, elude, malinger, dodge, give one the slip, draw back, hold off, edge off, go off, turn aside, recoil from, keep at arm s length, desist,… …

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  • 64Avoidance — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Absence of pursuit. < N PARAG:Avoidance >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 abstention abstention abstinence Sgm: N 1 for bearance for bearance Sgm: N 1 refraining refraining &c. >V. Sgm: N 1 inaction inaction &c. 681 …

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  • 65Dislike — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Dislike >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 dislike dislike distaste disrelish disinclination displacency GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 reluctance reluctance Sgm: N 2 backwardness backwardness &c.(unwillingness) 603 …

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  • 66shy — ‘timid, reserved’ [OE] goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *skeukhwaz ‘afraid’ (source also of English eschew and skew). It is generally assumed that shy ‘throw’ [18] must have come from it, but the exact nature of the relationship between the… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 67skew — (v.) late 15c., from O.N.Fr. eskiuer shy away from, avoid, O.Fr. eschiver (see ESCHEW (Cf. eschew)). Meaning depict unfairly first recorded 1872, on notion of being slanted. Statistical sense dates from 1929. The adj. meaning slanting, turned to… …

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  • 68renounce — 1 *abdicate, resign Analogous words: sacrifice, abnegate, *forgo, forbear, eschew Antonyms: arrogate: covet (sense 2) Contrasted words: usurp, preempt, appropriate (see ARROGATE) 2 *abjure, forswear, recant, retract …

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  • 69materialism + philosophy —    by Kenneth Surin   For Deleuze and Guattari, traditional philosophy has always functioned on the basis of codes that have effectively turned it into a bureaucracy of the consciousness. Traditional philosophy has never been able to abandon its… …

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  • 70shy — ‘timid, reserved’ [OE] goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *skeukhwaz ‘afraid’ (source also of English eschew and skew). It is generally assumed that shy ‘throw’ [18] must have come from it, but the exact nature of the relationship between the… …

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