shirked

Verb

shirk (third-person singular simple present shirks, present participle shirking, simple past and past participle shirked)

1. (transitive) To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
   • the usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers
2. (intransitive) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
   • If you have a job, don't shirk from it by staying off work.
3. (transitive) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
   • You that never heard the call of any vocation, […] that shirk living from others, but time from yourselves.1635, Bishop Rainbow, Sermons

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