Definition of "turning away" [turning away]

• Present participle of turn away. (verb)

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• "The partial closure of the eyelids, as Duchenne2 insists, or the turning away of the eyes or of the whole body, are likewise highly expressive of disdain."
• "We seem thus to say to the despised person that he smells offensively,5 in nearly the same manner as we express to him by half-closing our eyelids, or turning away our faces, that he is not worth looking at."
• "A convulsive, inspiratory grunt, a bashful, receding, turning away of the head and body, a raising of the hands to cover her face and hide her tears, and hasty, running steps to get away, while murmuring audibly "Let me go away," followed rapidly one upon the other."