"eschew" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ɛsˈt͡ʃuː/ [UK], /ɪsˈt͡ʃuː/ [UK], /ɪʃˈt͡ʃuː/ [UK], /ɛˈʃu/ [US, proscribed, sometimes], /ɪˈʃu/ [US, proscribed, sometimes], /ɛˈskju/ [US, proscribed, sometimes] Audio: en-us-eschew.ogg [US] Forms: eschews [present, singular, third-person], eschewing [participle, present], eschewed [participle, past], eschewed [past]
Rhymes: -uː Etymology: From Middle English eschewen, from Anglo-Norman eschiver, (third-person present eschiu), from Frankish *skiuhijan (“to dread, shun, avoid”); thus a doublet of skew. For the pronunciation with /ʃ/, compare the development of marshal from Middle English marschal (/marsˈt͡ʃaːl/) or Middle English myssheve, variant of myschef (“hardship”). Variants in /sk/ are either from unattested Middle English *eskewen (from Old Northern French eskiver; compare skew) or are spelling pronunciations. See also French esquiver. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|eschewen}} Middle English eschewen, {{der|en|xno|eschiver}} Anglo-Norman eschiver, {{m|fro|eschiu}} eschiu, {{der|en|frk|*skiuhijan|t=to dread, shun, avoid}} Frankish *skiuhijan (“to dread, shun, avoid”), {{doublet|en|skew|nocap=1}} doublet of skew, {{m|en|marshal}} marshal, {{m+|enm|marschal}} Middle English marschal, {{m+|enm|myssheve}} Middle English myssheve, {{m|enm|myschef|t=hardship}} myschef (“hardship”), {{m+|enm||*eskewen}} Middle English *eskewen, {{m+|fro-nor|eskiver}} Old Northern French eskiver, {{m|en|skew}} skew, {{glossary|spelling pronunciation}} spelling pronunciation, {{cog|fr|esquiver}} French esquiver Head templates: {{en-verb}} eschew (third-person singular simple present eschews, present participle eschewing, simple past and past participle eschewed)
  1. (transitive, formal) To avoid; to shun, to shy away from. Tags: formal, transitive Derived forms: eschewable, eschewment, umbeschew, uneschewable Related terms: shy Translations (avoid, shun): ontwyk (Afrikaans), shmang (Albanian), խուսափել (xusapʿel) (Armenian), отбягвам (otbjagvam) (Bulgarian), избягвам (izbjagvam) (Bulgarian), 回避 (huíbì) (Chinese Mandarin), vyhnout se [perfective] (Czech), vyvarovat se [perfective] (Czech), vyhýbat se [imperfective] (Czech), vystříhat se [perfective] (Czech), vermijden (Dutch), schuwen (Dutch), ontwijken (Dutch), välttää (Finnish), karttaa (Finnish), esquiver (French), meiden (German), scheuen (German), αποφεύγω (apofévgo) (Greek), נמנע (nimná) (Hebrew), seachain (Irish), schivare (Italian), rifuggire (Italian), ескивира (eskivira) (Macedonian), eschewen (Middle English), sky (Norwegian), ætflēon (Old English), evitar (Portuguese), esquivar (Portuguese), renegar (Portuguese), evita (Romanian), ocoli (Romanian), сторони́ться (storonítʹsja) (Russian), избега́ть (izbegátʹ) (Russian), vyhýbať sa (Slovak), evitar (Spanish), sky (Swedish), undvika (Swedish), уникати (unykaty) (Ukrainian), ухилятися (uxyljatysja) (Ukrainian), сторонитися (storonytysja) (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "eschewen"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English eschewen",
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    },
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      },
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      },
      "expansion": "Middle English marschal",
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      },
      "expansion": "Middle English myssheve",
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    },
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "Old Northern French eskiver",
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        "1": "en",
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      },
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      },
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
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      "form": "eschewing",
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        "past"
      ]
    },
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    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
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        {
          "word": "eschewable"
        },
        {
          "word": "eschewment"
        },
        {
          "word": "umbeschew"
        },
        {
          "word": "uneschewable"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XX, Chapter vii, leaf 404v",
          "text": "And peraduenture my lady the quene sente for hym to that entente that syr Launcelot shold come to her good grace pryuely and secretely wenynge to her that hit was best so to do in eschewyng & dredyng of sklaunder\n\"And peradventure my lady, the queen, sent for him to that intent that Sir Launcelot should come to her good grace privily and secretly, weening to her that it was best so to do, in eschewing and dreading of slander\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1927, H. P. Lovecraft, The Horror at Red Hook",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "[S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65",
          "text": "I eschew the idea of plugging in my laptop to take notes and resort to old-fashioned pen and paper instead, so that I can enjoy more of the view and not be distracted by bashing a keyboard.",
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        "To avoid; to shun, to shy away from."
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          "avoid",
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          "shun"
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          "shy away from",
          "shy away from"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, formal) To avoid; to shun, to shy away from."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "shy"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "af",
          "lang": "Afrikaans",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "ontwyk"
        },
        {
          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "shmang"
        },
        {
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "xusapʿel",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "խուսափել"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "otbjagvam",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "отбягвам"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "izbjagvam",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "избягвам"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "huíbì",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "回避"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "vyhnout se"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "vyvarovat se"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "vyhýbat se"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "vystříhat se"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "vermijden"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "schuwen"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "ontwijken"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "välttää"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "karttaa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "esquiver"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "meiden"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "scheuen"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "apofévgo",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "αποφεύγω"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "nimná",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "נמנע"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "seachain"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "schivare"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "rifuggire"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "eskivira",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "ескивира"
        },
        {
          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "eschewen"
        },
        {
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "sky"
        },
        {
          "code": "ang",
          "lang": "Old English",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "ætflēon"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "evitar"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "esquivar"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "renegar"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "evita"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "ocoli"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "storonítʹsja",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "сторони́ться"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "izbegátʹ",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "избега́ть"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "vyhýbať sa"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "evitar"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "sky"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "undvika"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "unykaty",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "уникати"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "uxyljatysja",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "ухилятися"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "storonytysja",
          "sense": "avoid, shun",
          "word": "сторонитися"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛsˈt͡ʃuː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪsˈt͡ʃuː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪʃˈt͡ʃuː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛˈʃu/",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "proscribed",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪˈʃu/",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "proscribed",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛˈskju/",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "proscribed",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "/s.t͡ʃ/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/ʃ/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/sk/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uː"
    },
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      "audio-ipa": "/ɛsˈt͡ʃu/",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/En-us-eschew.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "eschew"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "eschewable"
    },
    {
      "word": "eschewment"
    },
    {
      "word": "umbeschew"
    },
    {
      "word": "uneschewable"
    }
  ],
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        "3": "eschewen"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English eschewen",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
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        "3": "eschiver"
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "eschiu"
      },
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    },
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      "args": {
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        "t": "to dread, shun, avoid"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
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        "nocap": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "doublet of skew",
      "name": "doublet"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "marshal"
      },
      "expansion": "marshal",
      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "marschal"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English marschal",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "myssheve"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English myssheve",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "myschef",
        "t": "hardship"
      },
      "expansion": "myschef (“hardship”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "",
        "3": "*eskewen"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English *eskewen",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro-nor",
        "2": "eskiver"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Northern French eskiver",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "skew"
      },
      "expansion": "skew",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "spelling pronunciation"
      },
      "expansion": "spelling pronunciation",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "esquiver"
      },
      "expansion": "French esquiver",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English eschewen, from Anglo-Norman eschiver, (third-person present eschiu), from Frankish *skiuhijan (“to dread, shun, avoid”); thus a doublet of skew.\nFor the pronunciation with /ʃ/, compare the development of marshal from Middle English marschal (/marsˈt͡ʃaːl/) or Middle English myssheve, variant of myschef (“hardship”). Variants in /sk/ are either from unattested Middle English *eskewen (from Old Northern French eskiver; compare skew) or are spelling pronunciations.\nSee also French esquiver.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "eschews",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eschewing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eschewed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eschewed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "eschew (third-person singular simple present eschews, present participle eschewing, simple past and past participle eschewed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "shy"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English doublets",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English formal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Anglo-Norman",
        "English terms derived from Frankish",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/uː",
        "Rhymes:English/uː/2 syllables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XX, Chapter vii, leaf 404v",
          "text": "And peraduenture my lady the quene sente for hym to that entente that syr Launcelot shold come to her good grace pryuely and secretely wenynge to her that hit was best so to do in eschewyng & dredyng of sklaunder\n\"And peradventure my lady, the queen, sent for him to that intent that Sir Launcelot should come to her good grace privily and secretly, weening to her that it was best so to do, in eschewing and dreading of slander\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1927, H. P. Lovecraft, The Horror at Red Hook",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "[S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65",
          "text": "I eschew the idea of plugging in my laptop to take notes and resort to old-fashioned pen and paper instead, so that I can enjoy more of the view and not be distracted by bashing a keyboard.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To avoid; to shun, to shy away from."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "avoid",
          "avoid"
        ],
        [
          "shun",
          "shun"
        ],
        [
          "shy away from",
          "shy away from"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, formal) To avoid; to shun, to shy away from."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛsˈt͡ʃuː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪsˈt͡ʃuː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪʃˈt͡ʃuː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛˈʃu/",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "proscribed",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪˈʃu/",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "proscribed",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛˈskju/",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "proscribed",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "/s.t͡ʃ/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/ʃ/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/sk/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uː"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-eschew.ogg",
      "audio-ipa": "/ɛsˈt͡ʃu/",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0e/En-us-eschew.ogg/En-us-eschew.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/En-us-eschew.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "ontwyk"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "shmang"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "xusapʿel",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "խուսափել"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "otbjagvam",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "отбягвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "izbjagvam",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "избягвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huíbì",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "回避"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "vyhnout se"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "vyvarovat se"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "vyhýbat se"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "vystříhat se"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "vermijden"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "schuwen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "ontwijken"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "välttää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "karttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "esquiver"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "meiden"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "scheuen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "apofévgo",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "αποφεύγω"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "nimná",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "נמנע"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "seachain"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "schivare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "rifuggire"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "eskivira",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "ескивира"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "eschewen"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "sky"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "ætflēon"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "evitar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "esquivar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "renegar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "evita"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "ocoli"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "storonítʹsja",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "сторони́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "izbegátʹ",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "избега́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "vyhýbať sa"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "evitar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "sky"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "undvika"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "unykaty",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "уникати"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "uxyljatysja",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "ухилятися"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "storonytysja",
      "sense": "avoid, shun",
      "word": "сторонитися"
    }
  ],
  "word": "eschew"
}

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