look away

• Verbo frasal usado para indicar o ato de desviar o olhar de algo ou alguém, muitas vezes para evitar ver algo ou para não prestar atenção.

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.

incontável · intransitivo · phrasal, sem objeto

1. Turn gaze elsewhereformal

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

   Desviar o olhar

   • 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.

   Sinônimosavertturn away

   Antônimosconfrontfacemeetregard

2. Avoid seeing something unpleasantinformal

   To deliberately turn your eyes from something disturbing or upsetting.

   Desviar o olhar

   • 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.

   Sinônimosturn away

   Antônimosconfrontface

Verbo baselook