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Word · 単語
to turn away
  1. 1 to turn away, to bear off, to veer away, to swerve from, to miss (e.g. a target)
  2. 2 to deviate (e.g. of a conversation), to digress, to go astray, to wander
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.

· examples

  • The story wandered.

    i+1 — every other word is already in your reviews sense 2 · to deviate (e.g. of a conversation)

  • We wandered from the course.

    sense 1 · to turn away

  • Let's not deviate from the subject.

    sense 2 · to deviate (e.g. of a conversation)

  • We've got to stick to the point.

    sense 2 · to deviate (e.g. of a conversation)

  • He strayed from his group.

    sense 1 · to turn away

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