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shun, eschew

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

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hedge

v. minimize loss or risk; "diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks"; "hedge your bets"

elude, escape

v. be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"

evade

v. practice evasion; "This man always hesitates and evades"

abstain, refrain, desist

v. choose not to consume; "I abstain from alcohol"

refrain, forbear

v. resist doing something; "He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping"

predate, precede, forego, forgo, antecede, antedate

v. be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"

abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile

v. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"

abandon, forsake, desolate, desert

v. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"

swear off

v. promise to abstain from; "I have sworn off cigarettes altogether"

boycott

v. refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with

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