Eschew

Verb

 * 1)  To avoid; to shun, to shy away from.

Quotations

 * What cannot be eschew’d must be embrac’d.
 * 1927, H.P. Lovecraft, The Horror at Red Hook
 * He could afford no servants, and would admit but few visitors to his absolute solitude; eschewing close friendships and receiving his rare acquaintances in one of the three ground-floor rooms which he kept in order.
 * He could afford no servants, and would admit but few visitors to his absolute solitude; eschewing close friendships and receiving his rare acquaintances in one of the three ground-floor rooms which he kept in order.

Related terms

 * shy

Thesaurus
abstain, abstain from, avoid, bilk, do without, double, duck, elude, evade, forbear, forgo, hold aloof from, hold back, keep from, let alone, let go by, never touch, not touch, pass up, refrain, refrain from, sacrifice, shun, shy, spare, stand aloof from, steer clear of, withhold

Etymology
From eschewen:, from  eschiver: (third-person present eschiu:), of  origin, from  *undefined:, from. Cognate with Old High German sciuhen:. More at.

Translations

 * Albanian: shmang
 * Armenian: խուսափել
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: vyhnout se, vyvarovat se
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, scheuen


 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: נמנע
 * Irish: seachain
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: