look away

1. 1.

   avert one's gaze

   “She looked away when the nurse pricked her arm with the needle”

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Questions about look away

What does look away mean?

look away means "avert one's gaze".

Is look away a common word?

look away is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.