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keep away from
vs
make familiar/conversant/acquainted with
keep away from
verb
To deny (someone or something) access to, to maintain distance between.
To avoid or eschew.
make familiar/conversant/acquainted with
How often have the words
keep away from
and
make familiar/conversant/acquainted with
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)