TURNING AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does turning away mean? 

• TURNING AWAY (noun)
  The noun TURNING AWAY has 1 sense:

1. deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

  Familiarity information: TURNING AWAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURNING AWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

avoidance; dodging; shunning; turning away

Hypernyms ("turning away" is a kind of...):

rejection (the act of rejecting something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "turning away"):

aversion; averting (the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away)

escape (an avoidance of danger or difficulty)

near thing (something that barely avoids failure or disaster)

 Context examples 

“What do you mean?” I demanded; for, having sped his shaft, he was turning away.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If it had been anyone but you, Agnes, said I, turning away my head, I should not have minded it half so much.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Well, (turning away), now, where are you bound?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“I beg your pardon,” replied Miss Bingley, turning away with a sneer.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his chambers.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not another word did he say of the case until late that night, when he was turning away, with his lighted candle, for his bedroom.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Very likely,” said he, turning away.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Him!—never, never. Dear Miss Woodhouse, how could you so mistake me?” turning away distressed.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I was turning away from him when I observed that something projected from the front of his ragged jacket.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your goodness in thinking of me in such a way is beyond—
“If that is all you have to say, Fanny” smiling and turning away again.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)