look away

• Partikelverb, das die Handlung beschreibt, den Blick von etwas oder jemandem abzuwenden, oft um etwas Unangenehmes nicht sehen zu müssen oder es zu ignorieren.

A phrasal verb used to indicate the act of turning one's gaze away from something or someone, often to avoid seeing or acknowledging it.

unzählbar · intransitiv · Phrasal, ohne Objekt

1. Turn gaze elsewhereformal

   To direct one's eyes away from something or someone.

   Wegschauen

   • She looked away when he started crying.
   • He looked away from the bright light.
   • The child looked away shyly when the stranger spoke to him.

   Synonymeavertturn away

   Antonymeconfrontfacemeetregard

2. Avoid seeing something unpleasantinformal

   To deliberately turn your eyes from something disturbing or upsetting.

   Den Blick abwenden

   • I had to look away during the gory scene in the movie.
   • She looked away from the accident scene.
   • He couldn't bear to watch and looked away.

   Synonymeturn away

   Antonymeconfrontface

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