keeping away from
Maintaining safe distance
Keeping away from means maintaining distance or avoiding contact with someone or something.
The phrase suggests deliberate effort to prevent proximity or involvement: She's been keeping away from sugar lately, He advised his son to keep away from that crowd.
It can apply to physical distance or to avoiding situations, topics, or influences.
- desistingStopping a course of action
- giving upChoosing to stop trying
- refusingDeclining to accept
- renouncingFormally abandoning a claim
- abstainDeliberately not do
evade · dodge · preclude · disengage · isolate · forestall · fend off · shield · shun · refrain · eschew · compartmentalize · tune out · hermitize · numb · detach · sidestep · back off
engagement/involvement
keeping away fromembracing
Holding warmly, willingly accepting
joining in · pursuing · seeking out · going after · chasing