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v. To avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility).

verb-intransitive. To avoid work or duty.

v. To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.

n. one who shirks

n. the unforgivable sin of idolatry

v. To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.

v. To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud.

verb-intransitive. To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.

verb-intransitive. To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.

n. One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.

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.

n. One who lives by shifts or tricks. See shark.

n. One who seeks to avoid duty.

v. avoid (one's assigned duties)

v. avoid dealing with

"Never one to shirk from a challenge, I replied: Some friends of mine decided to remodel their kitchen."

shirked    shirking    shirks   

avoid   

to shirk off    malinger   

avoid    escape    neglect    shark    evade    balk    blink    blench    soldier    soger   

Berk    Burk    Burke    Dirk    Kirk    Merc    Turk    berk    berserk    birk