Definition of "turn away"

turn away

verb
third-person singular simple present turns away, present participle turning away, simple past and past participle turned away
1. (transitive, literally) To rotate so as not to face someone or something.
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  Thereat the Elfe did blush in priuitee, / And turnd his face away; but she the same / Dissembled faire, and faynd to ouersee.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
2. (intransitive, literally) To rotate oneself so as not to face someone or something.
3. (transitive, literally) To bend or turn from a fixed course.
4. (intransitive, literally) To bend or turn from a fixed course.
  Quotations
  He met Luis Suarez's cross at the far post, only for Chelsea keeper Petr Cech to show brilliant reflexes to deflect his header on to the bar. Carroll turned away to lead Liverpool's insistent protests that the ball had crossed the line but referee Phil Dowd and assistant referee Andrew Garratt waved play on, with even a succession of replays proving inconclusive.
  2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎
5. (transitive, figuratively) To refuse to admit someone or accept something.
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  For heauen doth know (ſo ſhall the world perceiue)That I haue turn'd away my former Selfe,So will I thoſe that kept me Companie.
  c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene v], page 100
6. (transitive, figuratively) To avert or ward off the occurrence or effects of.
7. (transitive, dated) To dismiss from service.
8. (intransitive, figuratively) To forsake or refuse an association or commitment.

Definition of "turn away"

turn away

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