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"Deliberately avoid"2 answers
shun4 letterseschew6 letters
Filled answer is this word (ESCHEW).
Definitions
avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
Word origin
From Middle English eschewen, from Anglo-Norman eschiver, (third-person present eschiu), from Frankish *skiuhijan (“to dread, shun, avoid”); thus a doublet of skew.
Used in a sentence
“What cannot be eschew'd must be embrac'd.”
“Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.”
“Above all, let her eschew the impertinence of invention; let her leave genius to her milliner.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Deliberately avoid”6 letters
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