Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Shun

Shun , transitive verb

[Old English shunien, schunien, schonien, Anglo-Saxon scunian, sceonian; compare Dutch schuinen to slepe, schuin oblique, sloping, Icelandic skunda, skynda, to hasten. Compare Schooner, Scoundrel, Shunt.]

To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.
I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. — Acts xx. 26,27
Scarcity and want shall shun you. — Shakespeare