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. Ayanna Pressley:

   We can not and we must not look away in this moment.

2. Scott C. Holstad:

   she wants to to be loved for a few hours at least. I look away, people need peace. it’s raining hard outside; lives are breaking in the storm.

3. unknown:

   To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

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. 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?