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turning away
 
Noun turning away has 1 sense
  1. avoidance, turning away, shunning, dodging - deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
    --1 is a kind of rejection
    --1 has particulars: aversion, averting; escape; near thing
Verb turn away has 4 senses
  1. turn away - move so as not face somebody or something
    --1 is one way to     turn
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
    Somebody ----s PP
  2. deflect, bend, turn away - turn from a straight course , fixed direction, or line of interest
    --2 is one way to turn
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  3. reject, turn down, turn away, refuse - refuse entrance or membership; "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs"
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
  4. avert, turn away - turn away or aside; "They averted their eyes when the King entered"
    --4 is one way to turn
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
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