Definition of "shied" [shied]

• Past tense and past participle of shy1. (verb)
• Past tense and past participle of shy2. (verb)

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• "In the early 1980s, one of his clients, Johnny Cash, invited the outgoing Mr. Neal, who never shied from a camera, to appear as a lawyer in the television movie "Murder in Coweta County.""
• "Even as he has shied from the spotlight, Gill has become one of the most generous and widest-reaching political benefactors in the country, and emblematic of a new breed of business-minded donor that is rapidly changing American politics."
• "Jesse Helms, 86 He served five terms in the Senate, and he never shied from a Southern-fried filibuster to get what he wanted."