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What does turn away mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word turn away? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive) to rotate the body or head so as not to face someone or something
  2. (intransitive) to bend or turn from a fixed course
  3. (transitive) to refuse to admit someone
  4. (transitive) to avert or deflect something
  5. (transitive, dated) to dismiss from service
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Finally, irritated with myself for being so cowardly to turn away, I looked back into his eyes.
Transfixed, discomforted, we can't turn away from the spectacle as it lurches into even more ghastly territory.
Perhaps they will turn away in disillusionment, as if such discord mocks all meaning.
Minority children, credentialed educators warn, will be so frustrated as to turn away from learning forever.
He was about to turn away, when he heard footsteps coming up the church path from the gate.
As young accounting students turn away from academia, accounting professors are getting older.

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