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look away

Portuguese translation: desviar-se

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English term or phrase:look away
Portuguese translation:desviar-se
Entered by: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida

17:26 Oct 11, 2009
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Medical - Psychology
English term or phrase: look away
A frase é:

These propel the individual to renew the earliest modes of actual bodily contact, in connection with seeking for specific gratification. Or, to look away from clear-cut instinctual matters to the more remote elaborations of human contact.

Obrigado desde já!!
Mabre
Local time: 01:04
desviar-se
Explanation:
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 05:04
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Summary of answers provided
4 +5desviar-se
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
3 +3desviar a atenção / o olhar
Leniel Maccaferri
4rejeitar
Marlene Curtis


  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
desviar-se


Explanation:
Sugestão...

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 05:04
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 81
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Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  airmailrpl: -
31 mins
  -> Obrigada!
agree  João Araújo
33 mins
  -> Obrigada, João!
agree  Diana Tarré
2 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Diana!
agree  Katarina Peters
4 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Katarina!
agree  Giuliano Esgur
1 day 23 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Giuliano!
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31 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
desviar a atenção / o olhar


Explanation:
WordNet 2.0

look away
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Verb
1. avert one's gaze; "She looked away when the nurse pricked her arm with the needle"

Leniel Maccaferri
Brazil
Local time: 01:04
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jorge Freire
44 mins
agree  rir: eu diria Evitar
6 hrs
agree  imatahan
19 hrs
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40 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
rejeitar


Explanation:
Creio ser este o sentido no seu contexto.

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 00:04
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 242
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