"shy away from" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "shies away from",
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    },
    {
      "form": "shying away from",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "shied away from",
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        "past"
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      "form": "shied away from",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:",
          "text": "The Conan O’Brien-penned half-hour has the capacity to rip our collective hearts out the way the cute, funny bad girl next door does to Bart when she reveals that her new boyfriend is Jimbo Jones, but the show keeps shying away from genuine emotion in favor of jokes that, while overwhelmingly funny, detract from the poignancy and the emotional intimacy of the episode.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To avoid out of fear or caution."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "avoid",
          "avoid"
        ],
        [
          "fear",
          "fear"
        ],
        [
          "caution",
          "caution"
        ]
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
          "word": "vältellä"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
          "word": "astenersi"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
          "word": "evitare"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "kkeorida",
          "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
          "word": "꺼리다"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "stronić"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
          "word": "strániť sa"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
          "word": "bočiť od"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
          "word": "vyhýbať sa"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
          "word": "escurrir el bulto"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
          "word": "rehuir"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shy away from"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shies away from",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shying away from",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shied away from",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shied away from",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
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          "text": "The Conan O’Brien-penned half-hour has the capacity to rip our collective hearts out the way the cute, funny bad girl next door does to Bart when she reveals that her new boyfriend is Jimbo Jones, but the show keeps shying away from genuine emotion in favor of jokes that, while overwhelmingly funny, detract from the poignancy and the emotional intimacy of the episode.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To avoid out of fear or caution."
      ],
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        [
          "avoid",
          "avoid"
        ],
        [
          "fear",
          "fear"
        ],
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          "caution",
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
      "word": "vältellä"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
      "word": "astenersi"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
      "word": "evitare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "kkeorida",
      "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
      "word": "꺼리다"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "stronić"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
      "word": "strániť sa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
      "word": "bočiť od"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
      "word": "vyhýbať sa"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
      "word": "escurrir el bulto"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "avoid out of fear or caution",
      "word": "rehuir"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shy away from"
}