disdain — to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.
abandon — If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
forswear — to reject or renounce under oath: to forswear an injurious habit.
renounce — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
shy away from — If you shy away from doing something, you avoid doing it, often because you are afraid or not confident enough.
swear off — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
abstain — If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
double — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
duck — any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
elude — Evade or escape from (a danger, enemy, or pursuer), typically in a skillful or cunning way.
refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
sacrifice — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.