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Definition of turning away

deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

Similar Words: avoidance, shunning, dodging

Hyponyms: aversion, averting, escape, near thing

Derivational Morphology: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep, shun, eschew, avoid

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