What's the difference between forgo and shun?

Forgo


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indeed, there is only a limited understanding of the factors influencing physicians' decisions to forgo or maintain life-sustaining treatments when caring for dying patients.
  • (2) NHS officials told the Guardian that any individual local council that chose not to engage with NHS partners would forgo the opportunity to join up social care and health services more effectively, but that would be their choice.
  • (3) The wheels are falling off because the Chinese economy is slowing and commodity prices are falling and because the parliamentary gridlock means governments have been unable to do anything about it.” Richardson joined a growing push for the government to consider savings from the revenue the government forgoes due to the generous treatment of superannuation savings – $30bn in 2014-15 and forecast to rise to close to $50bn in 2017-18.
  • (4) If you forgo alcohol, incidentally, you could eat one of a handful of the main courses which come in just under £10, such as a special of smoked haddock with summer vegetables, soft poached egg and herb velouté, or the homemade fish fingers with salad and tartare sauce.
  • (5) Many patients, especially those who are elderly and who have chronic medical illnesses, choose to forgo cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in case of cardiac arrest.
  • (6) If the patient is incapable of expressing a preference, the decision to forgo resuscitation may be made by the patient's family or other surrogate decision maker.
  • (7) Increasing costs would cause “unnecessary harm” and lower high standards of care, as many patients would choose to forgo important tests, Harrison said.
  • (8) (In the end, Serco paid back £68.5m for the tagging debacle, and agreed to forgo any future profits on its prisoner escort contract.
  • (9) He has already dispatched 2,500 head office staff to work in its stores for one day a fortnight in the runup to Christmas, and revealed that, when possible, he is forgoing his chauffeur and taking public transport.
  • (10) Each year Thiel pays a small group of teenagers to forgo or quit university and start their own business.
  • (11) The BBC has announced that most managers will not receive a bonus this year, and ITV executives agreed to forgo part of their performance-related payments last week.
  • (12) Only one has been issued so far this century – by Pope Benedict to give Anglicans a way of joining the Catholic church without having to forgo their liturgy and so on.
  • (13) "We could lose a generation of potential, as more young Americans are forced to forgo college dreams or the chance to train for the jobs of the future," Obama said in the five-minute address.
  • (14) In the health care setting, team members forgo their personal needs to focus on the needs of patients.
  • (15) "We listened to our customers in December and so decided to forgo certain deductions which would make us liable to pay £10m in corporation tax this year and a further £10m in 2014.
  • (16) They forgo electricity or running water in favour of old-fashioned pleasures: you drift off in front of a log fire and awake to birdsong.
  • (17) Given the possibility that this surveillance could perhaps prevent deaths in the form of terrorist attacks, most Americans are willing to forgo some abstract notion of privacy in favor of the more concrete benefits of security.
  • (18) Given the unique and challenging Arctic environment and industry’s declining interest in the area, forgoing lease sales in the Arctic is the right path forward.” The move, announced as part of the federal government’s land and ocean leasing program that will run from 2017 to 2022, has been cheered by environmentalists who called for the Arctic to be put off limits for drilling to help slow climate change and avoid a catastrophic oil spill.
  • (19) The patient information that was collected included age and sex, diagnoses, mental status, location in the hospital length of hospital stay, method of payment, the timing of the first decision to forgo treatment, and the range and sequence of interventions forgone.
  • (20) As we have seen all too often in international emergency response operations, the stakes are too high to forgo systems of accountability.

Shun


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although there are some circumstances in which it is sensible to privatise, there are many good reasons why wholesale privatisation should be shunned .
  • (2) They shun cost-benefit analysis but soak up aid money, saying Haiti's state is incompetent and corrupt.
  • (3) "I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia."
  • (4) Four months after she was artificially inseminated after shunning the attentions of her prospective mate, Yang Guang, Tian Tian appears to have lost her appetite and is showing signs of moodiness and "nesting" behaviour.
  • (5) Some male relatives shunned him, believing it shameful or that he might have been a willing participant.
  • (6) Jin said China would probably support economic measures but would shun security-related action such as signing up to the Proliferation Security Initiative.
  • (7) A study released in August by the nonpartisan Commonwealth Fund came to the rather interesting conclusion that if the so-called invincibles shun the new law, it will be because the plans cost more than they think they can afford and not because they feel that they are above needing healthcare coverage.
  • (8) Famously ascetic, teetotal and vegetarian, he meditates, practises yoga and shuns the trappings of office.
  • (9) Scotland remains the only country not to teach its own children its history, and the built heritage has been neglected, bulldozed or shunned by politicians fearing anything that might be construed as “too nationalistic”.
  • (10) They include: the impending introduction of free school meals for all infant pupils in England; the addition of cooking skills to the school curriculum; and last year's voluntary agreement on a clearer food-labelling scheme , although a number of major food producers have shunned it.
  • (11) He’ll face competition from Manchester City though with Pep Guardiola shunning a wealth of Barcelona and Bayern Munich stars and identifying the England man as his top transfer target during a meeting with City’s top brass in, er, Amsterdam.
  • (12) But it is also to do with a work culture that shuns initiative and rewards indolence.
  • (13) He shuns parliament, he rarely gives interviews, even to friendly media, and he runs away from reporters.
  • (14) Once raped, they are stigmatised or shunned by their own families and villages.
  • (15) Some progressives are still shunning the event, with reports both of white women feeling excluded by talk of race relations, and minority women citing privileged whites acknowledging too little, too late their struggle against chronic class and race discrimination.
  • (16) Kicking a tuft of grass and pretending not to notice they had shunned him.
  • (17) These can be done by refusing to pay tax, shunning all government functions as it will be an illegal government, and any meetings called by any minister and president, and – where possible – they must engage in simultaneous public demonstrations to express their anger and frustration."
  • (18) Choosing to help their neighbours to their own detriment over time is pretty refreshing to see.” For all that, some residents in low-income communities feel shunned by more affluent towns close by.
  • (19) It was widely assumed the Germany international would move on in January after being shunned by Mourinho at the start of the season but, as the manager now accepts, the player is the one in control.
  • (20) As we know, millions of voters shunned the heavy handed warnings from Downing Street and its remain campaign about the risk to 3m EU-linked jobs, tax rises and savage spending cuts.