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turn away
verb as in alienate
verb as in avert
verb as in dismiss
verb as in pink slip
Weak matches
- ax
- boot
- boot out
- bounce
- bump
- can
- cashier
- defrock
- depone
- depose
- deselect
- discharge
- disemploy
- disfrock
- displace
- disqualify
- drop
- fire
- furlough
- give notice to
- give someone his or her walking papers
- give someone the ax
- give someone the gate
- give someone the pink slip
- give the ax
- give the gate
- give the heave-ho
- give walking papers
- give warning
- impeach
- kick out
- lay off
- let go
- let out
- oust
- pension
- put away
- recall
- release
- retire
- sack
- send packing
- shelve
- show someone the door
- shut out
- suspend
- terminate
- unfrock
- unseat
- wash out
verb as in recoil
verb as in refuse
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Perhaps the shock of unity brought on by Ferguson will occasion our turn away from this path—if, we must add, there is still time.
Tupac did not turn away even when Fama revealed why he was in prison.
For our storytelling to be truthful we need to address this fact, not turn away from it.
Only a real skinflint would turn away from purchasing trillions of dollars of “free” war, right?
His words will be interpreted as confirmation that he is not going to turn away gays in the priesthood.
Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.
Take away from me the way, turn away the path from me, let the Holy One of Israel cease from before us.
Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them, and to turn away thy indignation from them.
He wouldnt talk grammar, or he couldnt spell or read Greek, and she will turn away, laughed Mrs. Wadsworth.
Armand, unable to turn away his eyes, had put the handkerchief to his mouth and bit it.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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