turning away

1. 1.

   deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

   Synonymsavoidanceshunningdodging

   Broaderrejection

   Narroweraversionescapenear thing

Questions about turning away

What does turning away mean?

turning away means "deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening".

What is another word for turning away?

Close synonyms include avoidance, shunning, dodging. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is turning away a common word?

turning away is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.