0 past simple and past participle of eschew
1 to avoid something intentionally, or to give something up:
We won't have discussions with this group unless they eschew violence.
Because of these promises, the men eschewed training programmes available to them as ex-combatants and amputees.
While properly respectful, the aura of reverential incense all too easily associated with this figure is eschewed.
By contrast, anthropological studies have explicitly eschewed claims of general applicability in favor of detailed, culture-specific descriptions of linguistic practice.
The village ethos promoted consensus and eschewed political discourse.
To this end, equality of intellectual authority, eschewed by the evolutionary psychologists, is essential.
The production itself eschewed emphatic gesture for a subtle stagecraft.
What if he had eschewed compromise and waged a rabble-rousing populist campaign?
In his conclusion he notes that those who most successfully resisted eschewed radical politics.
