Avoid (one's assigned duties)
1 Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today.
2 The competition will shrink from January, leaving seven players with nationwide presence.
3 I never shrink from personal discomfort: I never refuse to sacrifice myself.
4 But the medical school laboratory seems to shrink from the public scrutiny.
5 In spite of their prejudices, they did not shrink from applying it.
6 Well, Thomas, if we must we must; but I shrink from it.
7 The things that I love you shrink from as dull and tiresome.
8 You shrink from the hards of life which I steer happily through.
9 Yet I shrink from her ever since that day on the moor-side.
10 He had already begun to shrink from the companionship of his family.
11 He knew the risk he ran, but did not shrink from it.
12 Once the conflict had been joined, he did not shrink from bloodshed.
13 She had seemed to shrink from him and fade out of sight.
14 He was not a man to shrink from the call of duty.
15 It was not in Emily's nature to shrink from a plain reply.
16 You shrink from your only comfortable alternative, if the career winks out.
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