Definition of avert one's eyes
: to look away
- He averted his eyes when she approached him.
avert one's eyes
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: to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance
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: to see coming and ward off : avoid
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: 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
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: all the visible structures within and surrounding the orbit and including eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrows
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: the faculty of seeing with eyes
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: to fix the eyes on : look at
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: contemplate, consider
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: to watch or study closely
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