What is to evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away. One of the cities shirked from the league. Byron called?
shirk — To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away. One of the cities shirked from the league. Byron. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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