shirk
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Is shirk a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.Examples: "the usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties"; "Back in school, you ever get busted for trynna walk and have some administrator tell you / "Son, you can shirk your obligations, / and try to be different from your peers, / but responsibility, your future / is gonna find you!""transitive
2. (intransitive) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.Examples: "If you have a job, don't shirk from it by staying off work."; "September 7, 1830, Lord Byron, letter to Mr. Murray One of the cities shirked from the league."; "Shapiro and Stiglitz (1984) develop a dynamic model in which firms induce workers to work hard by paying high wages and threatening to fire workers caught shirking."intransitive
3. (transitive) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.Examples: "You that never heard the call of any vocation, […] that shirk living from others, but time from yourselves."transitive
noun (English)
1. (Islam) The unforgivable sin of association (claiming something or someone can share in the oneness of God).Examples: "A person can have committed shirk in their lifetime and still find forgiveness (especially by saying the Shahada and becoming a Muslim). The concept is that if one dies in this state (as a mushrik, an idolator, one who engages in and does not repent shirk), there is no forgiveness."uncountable
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