look away

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look away

verb looks away · looking away · looked away

  1. intransitive To ignore something; to pretend not to have seen or noticed something; to avoid dealing with something. It's important not to look away from difficult situations like this.

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verb ignore something; to pretend not to see

Deutschwegsehen, wegschauen, wegblicken
العربيةغضّ النظر, غضّ الطرف

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@misc{look_away_2026,
  title = {look away},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/look%20away},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}