- avert gaze
- 1) Общая лексика: отвести глаза2) Макаров: (one's) отвести глаза
Универсальный англо-русский словарь. Академик.ру. 2011.
avert gaze
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avert your gaze — avert your eyes/gaze/head/etc phrase to turn your eyes or face away from something that you do not want to see Thesaurus: to move your headhyponym general words meaning to look or not looksynonym to sit or lie down … Useful english dictionary
avert your eyes — avert your eyes/gaze/head/etc phrase to turn your eyes or face away from something that you do not want to see Thesaurus: to move your headhyponym general words meaning to look or not looksynonym to sit or lie down … Useful english dictionary
avert your head — avert your eyes/gaze/head/etc phrase to turn your eyes or face away from something that you do not want to see Thesaurus: to move your headhyponym general words meaning to look or not looksynonym to sit or lie down … Useful english dictionary
avert — verb 1 prevent sth ADVERB ▪ narrowly ▪ Disaster was narrowly averted when two airliners almost collided above Detroit. VERB + AVERT ▪ try to ▪ be able to, ma … Collocations dictionary
gaze — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ direct, fixed, level, steady, watchful ▪ She felt embarrassed under his steady gaze. ▪ intense, intent … Collocations dictionary
avert — [[t]əvɜ͟ː(r)t[/t]] averts, averting, averted 1) VERB If you avert something unpleasant, you prevent it from happening. [V n] Talks with the teachers union over the weekend have averted a strike... A fresh tragedy was narrowly averted yesterday.… … English dictionary
avert — UK [əˈvɜː(r)t] / US [əˈvɜrt] verb [transitive] Word forms avert : present tense I/you/we/they avert he/she/it averts present participle averting past tense averted past participle averted to prevent something bad or harmful from happening… … English dictionary
avert — avoid, avert, evade Avoid and evade overlap in meaning, but evade has a stronger sense of guile or trickery in escaping from an obligation (such as paying income tax). Avert means ‘to turn aside’ (which is its literal meaning in averting one s… … Modern English usage
avert — a|vert [əˈvə:t US ə:rt] v [T] [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: avertir, from Latin avertere, from ad to + vertere to turn ] 1.) to prevent something unpleasant from happening ▪ The tragedy could have been averted if the crew had followed… … Dictionary of contemporary English
avert — a|vert [ ə vɜrt ] verb transitive to prevent something bad or harmful from happening: Violence may have been averted with a greater police presence. avert your eyes/gaze/head etc. to turn your eyes or face away from something that you do not want … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
avert — verb (T) 1 to prevent something unpleasant from happening: The tragedy could have been averted if the crew had followed safety procedures. 2 avert your eyes/gaze etc to look away from something that you do not want to see: Lockwood averted his… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
