Noun turning away has 1 sense
- avoidance, turning away, shunning, dodging - deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
--1 is a kind of rejection
--1 has particulars: aversion, averting; escape; near thing
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Verb turn away has 4 senses
- turn away - move so as not face somebody or something
--1 is one way to turn
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- deflect, bend, turn away - turn from a straight course , fixed direction, or line of interest
--2 is one way to turn
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- reject, turn down, turn away, refuse - refuse entrance or membership; "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- avert, turn away - turn away or aside; "They averted their eyes when the King entered"
--4 is one way to turn
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
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