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shy away from

verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026

avoid having to deal with some unpleasant task

MWE

Classifications

Cognitive

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Responsibility

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Automation

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Variants

pasttense
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presentparticiple
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thirdpersonsingular
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pastparticiple
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