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shy away

shy away verb: to draw back in fear, cringe, back down.

Verb

shy away (third-person singular simple present shies away, present participle shying away, simple past and past participle shied away)

  1. to draw back in fear, cringe, back down
    • O. H. Krill, A Situation Report on Our Acquisition of Advanced Technology and Interaction with Alien Cultures
      They may shy away if witnesses or law officers try to approach.
    Synonyms:
    blench, flinch

shy away meaning in Malayalam

shy away in Malayalam

from recoil, flinch, demur
അറച്ചുപിന്മാറുക, പരിവർജ്ജിക്കുക, ഒഴിഞ്ഞുമാറുക, നാണംകുണുങ്ങുക, നാണിച്ചു ചുളുങ്ങിക്കൂടുക, അഞ്ചുക

Synonyms of shy away

Forms of shy away

third-person singular presentshies away
present participleshying away
past participleshied away
pastshied away

Origin of shy away

shy + away.

Questions about shy away

What does shy away mean?
Shy away means to draw back in fear, cringe, back down.
What is shy away in Malayalam?
Shy away in Malayalam is അറച്ചുപിന്മാറുക, പരിവർജ്ജിക്കുക, ഒഴിഞ്ഞുമാറുക. See Shy away meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is shy away?
Shy away is a verb.
What is the past tense of shy away?
The past tense of shy away is shied away.

Words near shy away in the dictionary

  1. shwopping
  2. shwr.
  3. shwrs.
  4. shxt
  5. shy
  6. shy away
  7. shy away from
  8. shy bairns get noot
  9. shy bairns get nowt
  10. shy bladder
  11. shy bladders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shy away (page history and authors); shy away (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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