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. Scott C. Holstad:

   People tend to get nervous when you stare at them. They are racked with enough insecurities as it is. They always look away, glance back quickly and look away again. Some part of them melts and as they attempt to gather themselves, their flesh forms puddles at their feet.

2. 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.

3. Mario Diaz-Balart:

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

4. Lhadon Tethong:

   Your silence is their strength. This is what they want more than anything: that the world will play by China’s rules, that we will follow China’s lead, that we will look away from these atrocities and crimes for the sake of business as usual.

5. 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.