The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ALIENATE
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More clues leading to the result ALIENATE
- Transfer story in article upset most of team
- Lose sympathy of stranger, at ease initially?
- Set against foreign volunteers returning to Spain
- Portman maybe shifts sections with eastern transfer
- Antagonise using a story in canteen regularly
- Cut off, ET scoffed
- Turn away foreigner at entrance to embassy
- Antagonise by spreading a neat lie
- Turn away from boxer with neat manoeuvre close to rope
- Foreigner satisfied his appetite only to lose friends
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The straight part
We know that "Turn away" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case turn away = alienate.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ALIENATE mean?
ALIENATE noun- A stranger; an alien.
- To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
- To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.
- (followed by "from") Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign