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

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

: the faculty of seeing with eyes

: to fix the eyes on : look at

: contemplate, consider

: to watch or study closely