Both Uses
avert
in
Sweet Far Thing
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- She turns her yellow eyes toward me, and though I do not mean to, I avert my own.†
Chpt 3 *
- The maid holds it open, trying to avert her eyes from our argument.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(avert as in: avert her eyes) turn away or aside -- often to turn your eyes away from something
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(2)
(avert as in: avert a strike) prevent from happening
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)