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vb. (en-pastshy away)
Usage examples of "shied away".
A small gray lanneret flew about them as if seeking their banner and then it shied away over the plain below on its slender falcon wings.
He had seen it in his own eyes, and he'd understood when some women had shied away from him, frightened by the dangerous edge they sensed in him.
After that, even outlaws shied away from the place for six or seven years, but from this moment to that somebody would hide out there for a while.
They shied away, the nine of them, dismissed, hovering in a knot near the edun, ears pricked.
The horses shied away from the frenzied approach of the pack, and the prince had to beat the dogs back with his fists to make them stop lunging for the underbellies of the horses.
An owl glided past, so close that her horse shied away right-ward, breaking off the road.
Cattilara started forward, then shied away, her hands raised as if to shield her eyes.
Yet even as his trained body responded and on ingrainedreflex began the stroke that would end all contention, hismind shied away.
Her mind shied away from giving her a picture of what the words meant.