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Definition of avert in English: avertverb əˈvəːtəˈvərt [with object]1Turn away (one's eyes or thoughts) she averted her eyes while we made stilted conversation Example sentencesExamples - But American reporters are studiously averting their eyes, lest they stumble over a story.
- We have to avert our eyes from the bombs and fires once in a while to look at the other images of this war.
- The sallow-faced Salome averts her scheming eyes from what she has brought about.
- I'd expect to be averting my eyes from a commercial that had children playing adults in a role-reversal scenario.
- Now she was the one who couldn't bear to look at him - averting her eyes, she pretended the stick shift fascinated her.
- Within a month of my accepting that position, I was out there with the best of them covering my face to the eyes to hide the gaze of men, averting my eyes, and wearing chadori for trips to rural areas.
- Shara saw Deidre try to avert her eyes, but was drawn to the now complete tattoo.
- Hard and social science will of course progress even though the Supreme Court averts its eyes.
- He let Ethan spend thirty dollars of credit, on the theory it was free money anyway, averting his eyes from the actual selections.
- In a feeble attempt to not be noticed, she averted her eyes from the building and began to draw.
- People in the bar looked around, but quickly averted their eyes.
- She averted her eyes, shifting her gaze to her feet in an attempt to avoid the mischievous curl of his lips.
- I have to avert my eyes after more than a few minutes of Walt Disney.
- It doesn't help matters that the film features inadequate performances that mostly consist of actors averting their eyes and shifting in their seats.
- I averted my eyes from the television, trying desperately to distract myself.
- I remember reading years ago that if you cannot help someone in the midst of a crisis you can at least offer your respect for their strength by not averting your eyes from their struggle.
- They don't make for pretty reading and some of you may wish to avert your eyes now.
- You can chew on the irony of icon-maker MTV presenting this notion when you're averting your eyes during the extended surgery scenes.
- Dogs are intelligent enough to stay in the shade and avert their eyes from the sun.
- While walking, I instinctively keep my gaze low and avert my eyes from those of men.
Synonyms turn aside, turn away, turn to one side 2Prevent or ward off (an undesirable occurrence) talks failed to avert a rail strike Example sentencesExamples - Yet just as it seemed that disaster was averted another major problem started.
- The stakes are high, and the rewards of successfully averting the coming catastrophe are even greater.
- The far-fetched, last minute intervention, presumably by the hand of God, that averts tragedy from striking the family sits uncomfortably with the raw realism of the rest of the picture.
- The crowd of people gathered in the area cheered, and the incident ended in averting the man's death wish.
- Why, only last week I was involved in a little incident, but I kept my cool and averted disaster.
- Two weeks later, passengers on another Greyhound bus were credited with averting disaster in Utah after they helped thwart an alleged hijacker.
- The Foreign Ministry explained the move as a protective measure aimed at averting any failure of the privatisation procedure.
- Inflation fighting and the need to cut government spending will end - to be replaced by trying to avert recession and deflation.
- The colonial state consciously forswore any attempt at intervening and averting these catastrophes.
- The Cell would also help avert accidental deaths and disabling injuries by providing proper first aid.
- They found, not surprisingly, that averting a major catastrophe would not be easy.
- Their bumbling averts cataclysmic disasters that confront the Earth - most of which are their own creation.
- ‘Treating and curing TB at first sign prevents its spread, averts death and reduces the burden TB patients place on the healthcare system,’ she said.
- Can Africa mount a prevention campaign successful enough to avert an epidemic of Western proportions?
- A vigilant driver managed to stop the locomotive and avert a major disaster.
- The results are immediate and it averts closing-day disasters.
- Although still traumatized and in counselling, she is now back in Russia where she shares her experience with other women in the hope of averting the same experience for them.
- After such a demoralizing outing, it would have taken a miracle to avert a catastrophe.
- I did, however, do my part to try to avert the disaster that ended about five years later in divorce.
- Faltering talks over firefighters' pay left little hope last night of averting the start of an eight-day national fire strike this morning.
Synonyms prevent, stop, avoid, nip in the bud stave off, head off, ward off forestall, preclude
Derivatives adjectiveəˈvəːtəb(ə)l Daly and deaths potentially avertable are for a 20 percentage point increase in intervention coverage in a hypothetical sample population of 1 million. Example sentencesExamples - Next one should calculate the proportion of the burden averted by current treatment, the proportion avertable by improved efficiency and the proportion avertable if additional funds were available to purchase remedies presently believed not to be cost effective.
- It isn't just the imp of the perverse that suggests that a total wipeout for Microsoft is avertable.
- If companies don't scan client data and an avertable disaster happens, then they could get sued by shareholders or even by the government for noncompliance with the USA Patriot Act.
Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'divert or deter someone from a place or a course of action'): from Latin avertere, from ab- 'from' + vertere 'to turn'; reinforced by Old French avertir. Rhymes advert, alert, animadvert, assert, Bert, blurt, Burt, cert, chert, concert, controvert, convert, curt, desert, dessert, dirt, divert, exert, flirt, girt, hurt, inert, insert, introvert, Kurt, malapert, overt, pert, quirt, shirt, skirt, spirt, spurt, squirt, Sturt, subvert, vert, wort, yurt Definition of avert in US English: avertverbəˈvərtəˈvərt [with object]1Turn away (one's eyes or thoughts) she averted her eyes during the more violent scenes Example sentencesExamples - It doesn't help matters that the film features inadequate performances that mostly consist of actors averting their eyes and shifting in their seats.
- I'd expect to be averting my eyes from a commercial that had children playing adults in a role-reversal scenario.
- They don't make for pretty reading and some of you may wish to avert your eyes now.
- He let Ethan spend thirty dollars of credit, on the theory it was free money anyway, averting his eyes from the actual selections.
- She averted her eyes, shifting her gaze to her feet in an attempt to avoid the mischievous curl of his lips.
- We have to avert our eyes from the bombs and fires once in a while to look at the other images of this war.
- Hard and social science will of course progress even though the Supreme Court averts its eyes.
- Now she was the one who couldn't bear to look at him - averting her eyes, she pretended the stick shift fascinated her.
- People in the bar looked around, but quickly averted their eyes.
- The sallow-faced Salome averts her scheming eyes from what she has brought about.
- In a feeble attempt to not be noticed, she averted her eyes from the building and began to draw.
- I remember reading years ago that if you cannot help someone in the midst of a crisis you can at least offer your respect for their strength by not averting your eyes from their struggle.
- I averted my eyes from the television, trying desperately to distract myself.
- While walking, I instinctively keep my gaze low and avert my eyes from those of men.
- You can chew on the irony of icon-maker MTV presenting this notion when you're averting your eyes during the extended surgery scenes.
- I have to avert my eyes after more than a few minutes of Walt Disney.
- But American reporters are studiously averting their eyes, lest they stumble over a story.
- Dogs are intelligent enough to stay in the shade and avert their eyes from the sun.
- Within a month of my accepting that position, I was out there with the best of them covering my face to the eyes to hide the gaze of men, averting my eyes, and wearing chadori for trips to rural areas.
- Shara saw Deidre try to avert her eyes, but was drawn to the now complete tattoo.
Synonyms turn aside, turn away, turn to one side 2Prevent or ward off (an undesirable occurrence) talks failed to avert a rail strike Example sentencesExamples - The Foreign Ministry explained the move as a protective measure aimed at averting any failure of the privatisation procedure.
- Inflation fighting and the need to cut government spending will end - to be replaced by trying to avert recession and deflation.
- Why, only last week I was involved in a little incident, but I kept my cool and averted disaster.
- Two weeks later, passengers on another Greyhound bus were credited with averting disaster in Utah after they helped thwart an alleged hijacker.
- The results are immediate and it averts closing-day disasters.
- Yet just as it seemed that disaster was averted another major problem started.
- Faltering talks over firefighters' pay left little hope last night of averting the start of an eight-day national fire strike this morning.
- The stakes are high, and the rewards of successfully averting the coming catastrophe are even greater.
- They found, not surprisingly, that averting a major catastrophe would not be easy.
- I did, however, do my part to try to avert the disaster that ended about five years later in divorce.
- ‘Treating and curing TB at first sign prevents its spread, averts death and reduces the burden TB patients place on the healthcare system,’ she said.
- Can Africa mount a prevention campaign successful enough to avert an epidemic of Western proportions?
- Although still traumatized and in counselling, she is now back in Russia where she shares her experience with other women in the hope of averting the same experience for them.
- The Cell would also help avert accidental deaths and disabling injuries by providing proper first aid.
- The colonial state consciously forswore any attempt at intervening and averting these catastrophes.
- The crowd of people gathered in the area cheered, and the incident ended in averting the man's death wish.
- A vigilant driver managed to stop the locomotive and avert a major disaster.
- Their bumbling averts cataclysmic disasters that confront the Earth - most of which are their own creation.
- After such a demoralizing outing, it would have taken a miracle to avert a catastrophe.
- The far-fetched, last minute intervention, presumably by the hand of God, that averts tragedy from striking the family sits uncomfortably with the raw realism of the rest of the picture.
Synonyms prevent, stop, avoid, nip in the bud
Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘divert or deter someone from a place or a course of action’): from Latin avertere, from ab- ‘from’ + vertere ‘to turn’; reinforced by Old French avertir. |