English Dictionary

turn away

verb

(intransitive) To rotate the body or head so as not to face someone or something. / (intransitive) To bend or turn from a fixed course. / (transitive) To refuse to admit someone.

She tried to turn away from the disturbing scene.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To rotate the body or head so as not to face someone or something.

Thereat the Elfe did blush in priuitee, / And turnd his face away; but she the same / Dissembled faire, and faynd to ouersee.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To bend or turn from a fixed course.

意味（3）

(transitive) To refuse to admit someone.

意味（4）

(transitive) To avert or deflect something.

to turn away disaster

意味（5）

(transitive, dated) To dismiss from service.

to turn away a servant