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escaquearse — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • shirk verb To avoid a duty or responsibility.
  • skive verb To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.

Senses

escaquearse is used for these senses in English:

  • get away with (colloquial, by extension) To avoid the consequences of doing something by an easier method.
  • shirk (intransitive) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
  • skive (UK, Irish, Commonwealth, informal) To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
  • slip away To leave without being noticed.

shirk — full definition

  1. verb To avoid a duty or responsibility.
  2. noun Someone who avoids their duties.

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