*1. If you turn someone away, you do not allow them to enter your country, home, or other place.
Turning refugees away would be an inhumane action. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
Hard times are forcing community colleges to turn away students. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
(picture above) Visitors to the Department of Labor are turned away at the door by personnel due to closures over coronavirus concerns, Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in New York. Applications for jobless benefits are surging in some states
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*2. To turn away from something such as a method or an idea means to stop using it or to become different from it.
Japanese corporations have been turning away from production into finance. [VERB PARTICLE + from]
Medicine began to turn away from botany in the 17th and 18th centuries. [V P from n]
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