If you turn someone away, you do not allow them to enter your country, home, or other place.
Turning refugees away would be an inhumane action. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
Hard times are forcing community colleges to turn away students. [VERBPARTICLE noun]
2. phrasal verb
To turn awayfrom something such as a method or an idea means to stop using it or to become different from it.
Japanese corporations have been turning away from production into finance. [VERBPARTICLE + from]
Medicine began to turn away from botany in the 17th and 18th centuries. [VPfrom n]
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turn away in British English
verb(adverb)
1.
to move or cause to move in a different direction so as not to face something
one of the children turned away while the others hid
2. (transitive)
to refuse admittance or assistance to
dozens of people were turned away from the hostel
Examples of 'turn away' in a sentence
turn away
They spend their days confronting the stuff that most people want to turn away from.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
She was standing at the sink now with her face turned away from him.
Len Deighton Bomber
Something anodyne about turning away from sin and rejecting evil.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
They often begin and end with the physical action of turning away or turning around.
The Times Literary Supplement (2013)
Political conviction and universal wisdom are causing young people to turn away from literature in their millions.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He looked at it and then just laughed in my face and turned away.
The Sun (2015)
She murmured something belligerent and turned away.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
He turns away from people and buildings to trees and landscape.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Should you get turned away at this point, seek out the back door.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Would-be first-time buyers are not the only ones being turned away by lenders.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
When these people turn away from the game, it is a dangerous portent.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Immigration controls are proving so tricky that artists from abroad are turning away rather than face the complexity of trying to get here.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
His whole instinct was to turn away, get to the boat fast and go from this place at once.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
No one is turned away.
Christianity Today (2000)
People can use the service up to three times a year, although in practice no one would be turned away in an emergency.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Too many potential suitable adoptive parents are getting turned away because they may not be the right ethnic match, are overweight or may have smoked.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
While smoking, I watch a woman in a ludicrous pink party frock and a tiny top hat getting turned away by incredulous bouncers.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Chinese translation of 'turn away'
turn away
vi
放弃(棄) (fàngqì)
vt
[applicants]拒绝(絕) (jùjué)
[business]放弃(棄) (fàngqì)
See turn
Nearby words of
turn away
turn
turn against
turn around
turn away
turn back
turn down
turn in
All related terms of 'turn away'
turn up
( arrive : person ) 露面 lòumiàn
turn to
( page ) 翻到 fāndào
turn round
( person, vehicle ) 调(調)转(轉) diàozhuǎn
turn over
( person ) 翻身 fānshēn
turn out
( light, gas ) 关(關)掉 guāndiào
turn on
( light, radio, tap ) 打开(開) dǎkāi
turn off
( from road ) 拐弯(彎) guǎiwān
turn into
变(變)成 biànchéng ⇒ The water turns into steam. → 水变成了蒸汽。 Shuǐ biànchéngle zhēngqì.