turning aside

Verb

turn aside (third-person singular simple present turns aside, present participle turning aside, simple past and past participle turned aside)

1. (intransitive) To avert one's gaze
2. (ambitransitive) To ignore (something) or turn a blind eye (to something)
   • I turn aside — I turn aside From Strangers' mirth and glee;1842, Westland Marston, Gerald: A Dramatic Poem, page 134
3. (transitive) To turn away; to refuse to let someone in
4. (transitive) To divert or move out of the way.
   • Behind this curtain is the most sacred recess of philosophic mysteries, therefore, it does not become unhallowed persons on common occasions to approach it, far less to turn it aside, in order to look in. Philosophers themselves , the mystagogues in the temple of decorum, must approach it with...1838, Robert Sandeman, Letters on Theron and Aspasio: Addressed to the Author, page 162
5. To reject; to resist or refuse to aid.
   • For to turn aside from God, and to say in the heart, " There is no God," are one and the same thing;1826, Martin Luther, Select Works of Martin Luther, page 72
6. To alter one's course or activity.
   • Hathi will not turn aside for the Striped One. Yet Hathi and the Striped One together turn aside for the dhole, and the dhole they say turn aside for nothing.1895, Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book