Timeline for English word for when avoiding being seen by people?
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| Sep 1, 2015 at 14:14 | comment | added | AndyT | @Born2Smile - I take your point, but Josh's example is a perfectly valid sue of English, which meets the OP's requirements. To shun a person might be to "visibly and deliberately ignore", but I don't think the same is true of shunning a place. | |
| Sep 1, 2015 at 11:32 | comment | added | Born2Smile | 'shun' does not imply a level of secrecy. On the contrary, in many instances shun is interchangeable with 'visibly and deliberately ignore'. Thus, while you may avoid contact, you don't necessarily end up avoiding the people. | |
| Sep 1, 2015 at 10:50 | history | answered | user66974 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |