Turn aside

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To avert one's gaze intransitive
  2. 2
    To ignore (something) or turn a blind eye (to something) ambitransitive

    "I turn aside — I turn aside From Strangers' mirth and glee;"

  3. 3
    To turn away; to refuse to let someone in transitive
  4. 4
    To divert or move out of the way. transitive

    "Behind this curtain is the most sacred recess of philosophic mysteries, therefore, it does not become unhallowed persons on common occasions to approach it, far less to turn it aside, in order to look in. Philosophers themselves , the mystagogues in the temple of decorum, must approach it with reverence, and after all are allowed only to turn it aside a very little ."

  5. 5
    To reject; to resist or refuse to aid.

    "For to turn aside from God, and to say in the heart, " There is no God," are one and the same thing;"

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  1. 6
    To alter one's course or activity.

    "Hathi will not turn aside for the Striped One. Yet Hathi and the Striped One together turn aside for the dhole, and the dhole they say turn aside for nothing."

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