how to pronounce eschew

/ɛstˈʃu/

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eschew is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of eschew in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… women also started to eschew the fancy …”

meanings of eschew

verb:

To avoid; to shun, to shy away from.

eschew frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word eschew occurs in english on average 0.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics eschew can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that eschew can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;