eschew
/icons/point.icon ESCAPE, AVOID, EVADE, ELUDE, SHUN, ESCHEW mean to get away or keep away from something.
ESCAPE stresses the fact of getting away or being passed by not necessarily through effort or by conscious intent.
e.g. nothing escapes her sharp eyes
AVOID stresses forethought and caution in keeping clear of danger or difficulty.
e.g. try to avoid past errors
EVADE implies adroitness, ingenuity, or lack of scruple in escaping or avoiding.
e.g. evaded the question by changing the subject
ELUDE implies a slippery or baffling quality in the person or thing that escapes.
e.g. what she sees in him eludes me
SHUN often implies an avoiding as a matter of habitual practice or policy and may imply repugnance or abhorrence.
e.g. you have shunned your responsibilities
ESCHEW implies an avoiding or abstaining from as unwise or distasteful.
e.g. a playwright who eschews melodrama
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verb with object
deliberately avoid using; abstain from:
｟かたく｠ 〈悪いもの･有害なものなど〉を(意識して)避ける(deliberately avoid), 慎む.
e.g. he appealed to the crowd to eschew violence.
DERIVATIVES
eschewal noun
ORIGIN
late Middle English: from Old French eschiver, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to German scheuen ‘shun’, also to shy1.