Definition of "to turn away" []

• To avert. (verb-transitive)
• (verb-intransitive)

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• "The colleges may have to turn away about 140,000 students, said Dan Troy, a vice chancellor of the state's 112 community colleges."
• "And thus as she attempted to please him, she also tried to make sure that, when he was finished, she would be able gently to turn away from him and face the dark alone as he slept and snored."
• "Piemur tried to turn away on that light note but found he could not, wishing that Master Shonagar might just this once ..."