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. 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?

3. Mario Diaz-Balart:

   Congress cannot look away as the president implements policies that channel dollars to an anti-American dictatorship.

4. Tina Fey:

   I personally will make my own pledge as a college-educated white woman to not look away, to not pretend that things that are happening now won't eventually affect me if we don't put a stop to it.

5. 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.