Definition of "turn away" [turn away]

• To rotate the body or head so as not to face someone or something (verb)
• To bend or turn from a fixed course (verb)
• To refuse to admit someone (verb)
• To avert or deflect something (verb)

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• "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."
• "When Robin approaches me to dance our special dance—lavolta, the only dance that allows us to embrace publicly—I keep to my resolve and turn away from him."
• "Even as he watched, he saw Latha Meru turn away from him, apparently retreating to the lift—but wind up facing him again anyway, as if she had done a full circle rather than a simple quarter-turn."