All 5 Uses of
avert
in
Wuthering Heights
- She averted her face: he apparently put some question which she had no mind to answer.†
Chpt 11 *
- For his life he could not avert that excess of emotion: mingled anguish and humiliation overcame him completely.†
Chpt 11
- Earnshaw had his countenance completely averted from his companion.†
Chpt 21
- 'No,' she repeated, and continued sauntering on, pausing at intervals to muse over a bit of moss, or a tuft of blanched grass, or a fungus spreading its bright orange among the heaps of brown foliage; and, ever and anon, her hand was lifted to her averted face.†
Chpt 22
- 'No, I'm not hungry,' he answered, averting his head, and speaking rather contemptuously, as if he guessed I was trying to divine the occasion of his good humour.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(avert as in: avert her eyes) turn away or aside -- often to turn your eyes away from something