What is "eschewed"

Usage examples of "eschewed".

As my apprentice and I slept on the floor and eschewed supper, we availed ourselves of none of your services.

He eschewed the traditional trappings of shamans: the spiral-carved stick, the circle of stones, the pyramids of crystals, and other gewgaws.

Utopian Socialism but Acland eschewed the conventional Marxist vocabulary and insisted that the basis of a Socialist revolution must be moral and not economic.