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. German Chancellor Angela Merkel:

   That set a bad precedent. The European Parliament will not look away.

2. Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji:

   The ceiling of this place is like none other, one of the most exquisite works of architecture, it's hard to look away.

3. Tim Ryan:

   The fentanyl crisis is killing our kids and devastating our communities, there is not a corner of Ohio that has not been affected by this epidemic in some way. We cannot look away as this crisis worsens. It’s time we take a whole-of-government approach to fight it. That means using every resource we have at our disposal to get this off the streets and out of our neighborhoods.

4. Michael Schulte:

   Terrific action by the kids, they dont look away, but act. Many adults could learn from the childrens example.

5. Summer Smith:

   Mathew said that he froze. He didn't make a single move. He was afraid to look away. That if he ... did anything to make the shooter notice him, that he would be shot. So he just sat there, he's sitting there, watching the shooter execute people?