avert one's eyes

:  to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance

:  to see coming and ward off :  avoid

:  a specialized light-sensitive sensory structure of animals that in nearly all vertebrates, most arthropods, and some mollusks is the image-forming organ of sight

:  the nearly spherical usually paired hollow organ of sight in vertebrates that is filled with a jellylike material, is lined with a photosensitive retina, and is lodged in a bony orbit in the skull

:  all the visible structures within and surrounding the orbit and including eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrows

:  to fix the eyes on :  look at

:  contemplate, consider

:  to watch or study closely