Shirk

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  • intransitive verb. To avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility).
  • intransitive verb. To avoid work or duty.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who lives by shifts or tricks. See shark.
  • noun. One who seeks to avoid duty.
  • To practise mean or artful tricks; live by one's wits; shark.
  • To avoid unfairly or meanly the performance of some labor or duty.
  • To procure by mean tricks; shark.
  • To avoid or get off from unfairly or meanly; slink away from: as, to shirk responsibility.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
  • intransitive verb. To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
  • noun. One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.
  • transitive verb. To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
  • transitive verb. To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the unforgivable sin of idolatry
  • verb. To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
  • noun. one who shirks
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. avoid (one's assigned duties)
  • verb. avoid dealing with
  • cross-reference
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    avoid  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Berk  Burk  Burke  Dirk  Kirk  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abandon  avoid  avoid  balk  bilk  
    verb-form
    shirked  shirking  shirks