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What does turn away mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word turn away? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive) to rotate the body or head so as not to face someone or something
  2. (intransitive) to bend or turn from a fixed course
  3. (transitive) to refuse to admit someone
  4. (transitive) to avert or deflect something
  5. (transitive, dated) to dismiss from service
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Legal formalities in accident cases should be simplified so that people will not turn away.
Perhaps they will turn away in disillusionment, as if such discord mocks all meaning.
I began to turn away, back towards the forest that I was sure to lose myself in, but he called out in urgency.
The key is to offer candidates good reason to turn away from the scramble for corporate and private dollars.
Transfixed, discomforted, we can't turn away from the spectacle as it lurches into even more ghastly territory.
This is the one hurdle at which most listeners coming in hope, tend to falter and often lose heart and turn away.

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