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Meaning avert meaning

What does avert mean?

avert

— verb (= head off, avoid) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening Let's avoid a confrontation head off a confrontation avert a strike — verb (= turn away) turn away or aside They averted their eyes when the King entered

Synonyms avert synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as avert?

avert English » English

prevent turn away avoid ward off stave off evade dodge deflect steer clear of sidestep shirk forfend elude duck stop preclude obviate head off forefend divert circumvent block sidetrack hinder forestall fend off deter debar turn shunt refrain from keep inhibit impede fend drive back dissuade defend arrest ward twist turn down turn aside trammel thwart take precautions stymy stymie spurn spoil

Topics avert topics

What do people use avert to talk about?
Language and thought Want Ask permission

Prevent
Person Sense, perceive See

Look

Conjugation avert conjugation

How do you conjugate avert?

avert · verb

Examples avert examples

How do I use avert in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Skillful diplomacy helps to avert war.
No one can avert death.

Movie subtitles

It seems only fair to use it now to avert one.
Modred, this carnage I seek to avert. is unlike the old war we fought against each other. Once you led outlanders against me. Enemies of England.
You have done wonders to avert a war.
If you request I will use my powers to disperse the evil forces and avert such disaster.
Am I an honest man who tried to avert war in China, or am I an ambitious man who sought to further his own career?
Don't avert your eyes.
To avert her own! I tell you, she is a false goddess!
But I shall avert my eyes at the necessary moment.
I shall avert my eyes, of course.
He wants to avert moral decline.
Why do you avert your eyes from me, Sillvio?
Do you mean avert their creation?
May their torments avert thy wrath from the People of the Lakes, thy only true followers and believers.
We must avert the catastrophe by any means, including murder!
The Queen did it to avert war.
We have tried by all means in our power to avert this war.
Avert the eyes!
Alvarez, are you saying that man must accept destruction, even though it's in his power to avert it?
The state of Egypt is menaced with destruction which only the utmost shrewdness may avert.
For what? -To avert a disaster.
Only public exposure of the treaty before the missiles are installed will avert a confrontation that could lead to war.
Then perhaps you could help me to avert a scandal. Doctor.
Avert!
To avert her own!
And should we not find enough to feed them, how can we avert disaster.
Avert your eyes, you lot!
Can you come up with something that will avert a catastrophe?
If julietta is considering giving her hand some day to the count, then we must at once say something to him, to avert the consequences of his folly.
A man thinks it all over. He knows what to do, the way to avert the suspicion or to direct it to somebody else, which is much worse.
I my opinion, those who avert their eyes are dangerous to public safety.
The creature must be expelled immediately if we are to avert disaster.
There is still time to avert disaster if we act resolutely and show both the Russians and the Americans that we will have no truck with their warmongering.

News and current affairs

It was Japan, the high-tech country par excellence (not the latter-day Soviet Union) that proved unable to take adequate precautions to avert disaster in four reactor blocks.
Mr. Putin has no need for the oligarchs to provide him with media support to avert a communist threat or offer a conduit for covert state financing.
This precludes any progress toward a peace settlement at a time when progress on the Palestinian problem could help avert conflagration in the greater Middle East.
The compromise that Iranian officials are suggesting is nowhere near what they would have to accept to avert military action and gain an easing of sanctions.
Can the IMF Avert a Global Meltdown?
But the most important part of the deal to avert the fiscal cliff was the restoration of the efficient payroll tax.
They must be willing to negotiate in good faith and compromise in order to enact laws, solve problems, avert crises, and build faith in the future.
But the UN was unable to avert the Cold War, wars in Algeria, Vietnam, and Yugoslavia, or genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda.
Such an approach should not be a goal in itself, but it might be a necessary evil to avert the danger of a euro implosion.
German politicians bear the important democratic responsibility of reinforcing this realization and advocating the steps needed to avert a catastrophe.
The good news is that powerful tools are available to avert many of these deaths.
There can be no better demonstration of good international citizenship than a country's willingness to act when it has the capacity to prevent or avert a mass atrocity crime.
Enterprises that factor disaster risk into their construction plans will avert the much higher costs of retrofitting later.
But will incoming IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn be able to exercise this new power quickly enough to avert a crisis?
On the other hand, the Court cannot charge - or refrain from charging - a senior political or military official responsible for grave crimes solely to avert negative political repercussions.
Italy's new government will have to display leadership and vision to guide the economy toward stable growth, avert a race to the bottom, and stem growing social tension.
But only a strong regional consensus on Afghanistan's future can avert the prospect of a renewed struggle for mastery there.
Far too little has been accomplished since, and, behind the scenes, Ban is working relentlessly to clear the bottlenecks and avert climate disaster.
The US Congress is well aware of what these numbers portend, but its members have chosen to avert their eyes.
This will set policy priorities straight, put strategies in place to avert a human catastrophe, and help Africa secure its rightful place at the global economic table.
They need central banks and fiscal institutions to avert financial panics and moderate business cycles.
And the conversion of comprehensive universities into specialized institutes for science and technology in the Soviet Union and communist China did nothing to avert economic disaster in those economies.
Or did the coup prevent a total takeover of power by the Muslim Brotherhood, and thus avert Egypt's economic collapse and chaotic descent into religious dictatorship?
To avert Chinese dominance, the US has already started to build countervailing influences and partnerships, without making any attempt to contain China.

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