HyperDic: turning_away

English > 1 sense of the expression turning away:
NOUNactturning away, avoidance, shunning, dodgingdeliberately avoiding / avoiding
English > turning away: 1 sense > noun 1, act
Meaningdeliberately avoiding / avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening.
Synonymsavoidance, shunning, dodging
Narroweraversion, avertingThe act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away
escapeAn avoidance of danger or difficulty / difficulty
near thingSomething that barely avoids failure or disaster
BroaderrejectionThe act of rejecting something
Spanishevitación, sorteo
Catalandefugiment, evitació, sorteig

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