From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishavert your eyes/gaze etcavert your eyes/gaze etcLOOK AFTER somebodyto look away from something so that you do not see it Henry averted his eyes as she undressed. → avert
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avert your eyes/gaze etc• Art, it seems, is the perpetual recidivist, always ducking back into the aesthetic as soon as vigilant life averts its gaze.• I wish I had power, just power enough to avert my eyes.• I averted my gaze and felt uncomfortable.• Sometimes Fate tiptoes discreetly at the margins of our lives, averting her eyes and keeping her distance.• I averted my eyes from her.• He stepped into the aisle, averting his eyes from the altar.• In it the artist portrays a disheveled thirty-one-year-old Morisot averting her gaze from the viewer.• They avert their eyes when they pass her in the hall. 