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Turning away   /tˈərnɪŋ əwˈeɪ/   Listen
Turning away

noun
1.
Deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening.  Synonyms: avoidance, dodging, shunning.






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"Turning away" Quotes from Famous Books



... how I regard him—but you want to cure him from love of him. And he does not want that. And besides, what a notion that medicine ever cured anyone! Killed them, yes!" said he, frowning angrily and turning away from Pierre. ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy

... yourself natural and not affected!" Adelaide cried, turning away abruptly.—"How wrong," she said in a low voice to Edgar, "turning the head of such a silly child ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876 • Various

... shortly, turning away. But he presently faced round again on the unfettered Karl, who was evidently ...
— Stories in Light and Shadow • Bret Harte

... And now, turning away from these and similar pleasures of memory, and passing over the once told tale (Foreword, vol. i. pp. viii., ix.) of how, when and where work was begun, together with the disappointment caused by the ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton

... horrible struggle, Esther. But you see I was right. There was a fitting lot in reserve for you." Esther felt too miserable for tears to come. She looked helplessly at Felix for a moment, then took her hands from his, and turning away mutely, said, "Father, I am ready—there is no ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol IV. • Editors: Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton


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