Timeline for What is a word for trying to avoid contact when you see someone, especially eye contact?
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| Dec 8, 2023 at 7:19 | vote | accept | aarbee | ||
| Dec 7, 2023 at 22:58 | comment | added | Lambie | averting one's gaze | |
| Dec 7, 2023 at 19:21 | answer | added | MrPatterns | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 10, 2023 at 3:47 | comment | added | stevesliva | I'd simply use ignore but there is also cold-shoulder. | |
| Jul 21, 2023 at 11:41 | answer | added | Tucker | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 21, 2023 at 9:22 | history | edited | livresque | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 21, 2023 at 9:14 | answer | added | livresque | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 21, 2023 at 7:08 | answer | added | Jaco Van Niekerk | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 0:25 | comment | added | Phil Sweet | related - english.stackexchange.com/questions/332484/… | |
| Aug 17, 2020 at 19:16 | answer | added | aarbee | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 3, 2018 at 13:54 | comment | added | dave | Maybe 'look away'? Or, 'shun'? | |
| Jul 3, 2018 at 12:59 | answer | added | Joshua Robison | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jul 3, 2018 at 10:35 | comment | added | Joshua Robison | She's been giving me reverse stairs all day. | |
| Jul 3, 2018 at 10:14 | comment | added | Joshua Robison | Some thoughts that may help ( blinds , erase, delete, block, ghost, , masking tape, ) | |
| Jul 3, 2018 at 10:04 | comment | added | Joshua Robison | I'm looking for this exact same thing. We need a verb that describes this like, "she's been toasting me ever since I said that." It's such a common thing, we should have to in our language already . I wonder what the Latin is for erase and existence. | |
| May 4, 2017 at 21:28 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Please, what makes you think there should be single word or a shortish phrase meaning that? How are ‘dodge’ and ‘avoid’ different? ‘… in the hallway, they dodged each other…’ has what to do with eye contact? For future reference, in the context of the question how d’you think the other words add anything to ‘… they dodged each other…’? ’They have been circumventing each other…’ would still have nothing to do with eye contact, even if ‘circumvent’ was an appropriate word. ‘Blank’ might convey a similar idea, as might ‘refuse to acknowledge’ but they also might confuse process with content. | |
| Apr 16, 2017 at 11:14 | history | reopened |
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| Apr 15, 2017 at 16:55 | history | edited | aarbee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 15, 2017 at 2:08 | history | closed | tchrist♦ | Not suitable for this site | |
| Apr 14, 2017 at 17:55 | comment | added | Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_ | Could you please provide a sample sentence showing how the word is to be used? As it stands, it is kind of unclear if you need a verb, or a noun to describe the situation. | |
| Apr 14, 2017 at 17:27 | answer | added | Centaurus | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 14, 2017 at 17:14 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Needs other words around it, but "averting" one's gaze is often used, in various phrasings. | |
| Apr 14, 2017 at 17:03 | history | asked | aarbee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |