Synonyms of the word

shun

• v. (transitive) To avoid, especially persistently.
• v. (transitive) To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
• v. (transitive) To screen, hide.
• v. (transitive) To shove, push.

avoid

• v. (transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make empty; to clear.
• v. (transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
• v. (transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get rid of.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become void or vacant.

ban

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
• v. (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
• v. (transitive) To curse; to execrate.
• v. (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
• v. (transitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
• n. prohibition.
• n. A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to…
• n. The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable…
• n. (obsolete) A curse or anathema.
• n. A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid…
• n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
• n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
• n. A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms…
• n. A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th…

banish

• v. (heading) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
• v. To expel, especially from the mind.

blackball

• n. A rejection, a vote against admitting someone.
• n. A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
• n. The act of so rejecting someone.
• n. A kind of large black sweet; a niggerball.
• n. A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.
• v. (transitive) To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.
• v. (transitive) To ostracize.

eschew

• v. (transitive, formal) To avoid; to shun, to shy away from.

expel

• v. To eject or erupt.
• v. (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
• v. (transitive) To remove from membership.
• v. (transitive) To deport.

ostracise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of ostracize.

ostracize

• v. To exclude (a person) from society or from a community, by not communicating with (them) or by refusing…
• v. (historical) To ban a person from the city of Athens for ten years.