Synonyms for look away
look away

Princeton's WordNet

1. look awayverb

   avert one's gaze

   "She looked away when the nurse pricked her arm with the needle"

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1. tear my eyes away

   tear my eyes away means to stop focusing or looking at a specific object. look away is a simpler way of saying 'tear my eyes away', but it is a synonym for the often used term.

   i tear my eyes away from the beautiful horse. i look away from the beautiful horse.

   Submitted by rinat on August 26, 2019  

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1. Jitarth Jadeja:

   If you'd look in Australian politics, it's boring by comparison, american politics, it's like, it's like a car crash you can't look away from.

2. Sigmar Gabriel:

   We need Saudi Arabia to solve the regional conflicts, but we must at the same time make clear that the time to look away is past. Wahhabi mosques are financed all over the world by Saudi Arabia. In Germany, many dangerous Islamists come from these communities.

3. Human Rights Council:

   My sense is that many diplomats are waiting for that report. Once it does come out I could see them rallying and pointing to the UN's own report in order to say,' we can not look away from this evidence from the very institutions that we are part of,'.

4. David Beckham:

   I think it gets up my partner, Lesley Braithwaite nose more than it does mine because when someone stares at me, if I look at them, they look away, whereas she can see people staring for much longer before Ive noticed. It doesnt really bother me though, it just makes me feel like how David Beckham must feel. If its good enough for David Beckham, its good enough for me. i first discovered them about two years ago, when my treatment options were reduced to palliative chemotherapy.

5. Sipho P Nkosi:

   Do not look away, better days are on its way.