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"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.",
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"ref": "2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65:",
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},
{
"ref": "1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 218:",
"text": "Above all, let her eschew the impertinence of invention; let her leave genius to her milliner.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
}
],
"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": "/ɛsˈt͡ʃu/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɪsˈt͡ʃu/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɛsˈt͡ʃju/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-eschew.ogg",
"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"
},
{
"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"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "avoid, shun",
"word": "ontwyk"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "avoid, shun",
"word": "shmang"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "xusapʻel",
"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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