ESCHEW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eschew mean? 

• ESCHEW (verb)
  The verb ESCHEW has 1 sense:

1. avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of

  Familiarity information: ESCHEW used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESCHEW (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they eschew    ... he / she / it eschews   
Past simple: eschewed   
Past participle: eschewed   
-ing form: eschewing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

eschew; shun

Hypernyms (to "eschew" is one way to...):

avoid (stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Abernethy has me under his orders, and I must eschew your rich country dainties.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well may he eschew the calm of domestic life; it is not his element: there his faculties stagnate—they cannot develop or appear to advantage.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Any enjoyment that bordered on riot seemed to approach me to her and her vices, and I eschewed it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

These were vile discoveries; but except for the treachery of concealment, I should have made them no subject of reproach to my wife, even when I found her nature wholly alien to mine, her tastes obnoxious to me, her cast of mind common, low, narrow, and singularly incapable of being led to anything higher, expanded to anything larger—when I found that I could not pass a single evening, nor even a single hour of the day with her in comfort; that kindly conversation could not be sustained between us, because whatever topic I started, immediately received from her a turn at once coarse and trite, perverse and imbecile—when I perceived that I should never have a quiet or settled household, because no servant would bear the continued outbreaks of her violent and unreasonable temper, or the vexations of her absurd, contradictory, exacting orders—even then I restrained myself: I eschewed upbraiding, I curtailed remonstrance; I tried to devour my repentance and disgust in secret; I repressed the deep antipathy I felt.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)