Avert

Definition: Avert

Avert

Verb

1. Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike".

2. Turn away or aside; "They averted their eyes when the King entered".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "avert" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

AVERT

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Synonyms: Avert

Hindrance

Keep off, stave off, ward off; obviate; avert, antevert; turn aside, draw off, prevent, forefend, nip in the bud; retard, slacken, check, let; counteract, countercheck; preclude, debar, foreclose, estop; inhibit; shackle; (restrain); restrict.

Crosswords: Avert

Any apocalypse I avert without dying? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

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Books

• AVERT, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Budget Policy: Promt Action Necessary to Avert Long-Term Damage to the Economy (reference)

• Computers in Crisis: How to Avert the Coming Worldwide Computer Systems Collapse (reference)

• Dove and the Bear: Did They Avert the Third World War? (reference)

• The Oster Conspiracy of 1938: The Unknown Story of the Military Plot to Kill Hitler and Avert World War II (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Year 2000:Action Plan to Avert Crisis (reference)

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They seemed to be within half a sentence of Harriet, and her immediate feeling was to avert the subject, if possible.

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Health

In some cases, if the contracture is detected early enough, this technique may avert the need for surgery. (references)

Doctors and nurses who treat incontinence early in its course can avert significant social and financial consequences. (references)

Recent research leads to the conclusion that aggressive promotion of safer sexual behavior and prevention and treatment of substance abuse could avert tens of thousands of new HIV infections and potentially save millions of dollars in health care costs. (references)

Children

Germany

The law mandates several special services for persons with disabilities; they are entitled to assistance to avert, eliminate, or alleviate the consequences of their disabilities and to secure employment commensurate with their abilities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Antigua and Barbuda

The police generally issue the required permits for public meetings but sometimes deny them in order to avert violent confrontations. (references)

Economic History

Uzbekistan

While Uzbekistan has managed to avert a major collapse, its growth remains far below its considerable potential. (references)

Human Rights

United Kingdom

Guidelines developed on the recommendation of the Patten Commission mandate that plastic bullets only be used to avert the risk of loss of life or serious injury; formerly, their use was sanctioned to protect property or to preserve the peace. (references)

Political Rights

Pakistan

The Musharraf Government pledged to return the country to a democracy; however, President Musharraf stressed his priority first to build a strong economic and political foundation in order to avert another bout of "sham" democracy. (references)

Trade

Egypt

The Customs Authority has begun applying a Computerized Customs Declaration Form (Bill of Entry) which intends to facilitate and simplify importers' dealings with the Customs Authority and to avert problems or differences in customs evaluation. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "avert": avert one's face. Additional references.

Albanian

shmang (avoid, bypass, deflect, elude, evade, fend off, help, obviate, shun, ward off), mënjanoj (avoid, deflect, depart, eliminate, elude, leave out, move aside, remove, save, shunt, stave off, store, store up, suspend, thrift, translocate, turn aside, uncurtain, ward off), largoj (avoid, brush away, brush off, call off, cast out, despatch, dislodge, dismiss, dispatch, dispel, divert, eliminate, estrange, freeze out, keep away, keep off, lead off, lift out, pack off, push aside, push away, push off, put off, relegate, remove, seclude, stave off, take away, turn, wean, whiffle), heq (abate, abolish, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, clear out, cross, cut off, cut out, deduct, delete, derogate, detach, detrude, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, divest, do away with, doff, drag, draw, drop, eject, eliminate, erase, exhaust, expel, exscind, extract, gather in, generate, get off, jump, keep off, kill, lift, lift off, move off, off with, omit, oust, peel back, pick off, pull at, pull off, pull out, put aside, put off, relegate, remove, save, scour, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, shake out, shed, skim, skip, soothe, spay, strike off, strip, subtract, swing, take away, take off, take out, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring), evitoj (elude). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حول نظره, ‏تفادى (avoid, dodge, duck, flee, obviate, outflank, parry, preclude, prepossess), ‏تجنب (avoid, avoidance, bypass, ditch, duck, eschew, eschewal, evade, evasion, fence, fight shy of, flee, get round, give a wide berth, hide, miss, obviate, outrun, parry, put off, save, shirk, shuffle, shun, shy, sidestep, steer clear of, waive). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отклонявам (abduct, bend, call off, deflect, detract, deviate, disincline, divagate, divert, fence off, head off, put off, shunt, siphon off, stave off, swerve, throw down, throw off, turn aside, turn off, wave away), отвръщам (call back, reciprocate, rejoin, replicate, reply, requite, return, say back), отблъсквам (beat off, counter, drive back, estrange, fight off, foil, head off, jar, press back, push away, push back, put off, rebuff, reject, repulse, resist, spurn, stave off, throw back, thrust aside, turn off, ward), обръщам настрана, предотвратявам (fence off, fend, fend off, forestall, prevent, ward), парирам (fence, fence off, fend off, foil, ward). (various references)

Chinese 

避免 (Averted, Averting, Avoid, Avoided, Avoiding). (various references)

Czech

zabránit (help, preclude, prevent, prohibit, save), odvrátit (divert, foil, head off, keep off, stave off, stem, turn, ward off). (various references)

Finnish

torjua (destroy, reject, repress, tend off, ward off), kääntää pois (distract, turn away). (various references)

French

prévenir, détourner, éviter (avoid). (various references)

German

abwenden (head off, turn aside, turn away, ward off). (various references)

Greek 

αποστρέφω, αποτρέπω (deter, disincline, dissuade, dissuasion, foil, prevent, scotch 1, ward off). (various references)

Hebrew 

למ� וע (deny, deprive, forestall, head off, hinder, inhibit, keep back, preclude, prevent, refuse, stop, ward off, withhold), ל�"פ� ות �"צי�"�", ל�"סב (endorse, indorse, yaw), ל�"� יא (dissuade, hinder, prevent). (various references)

Hungarian

elhárít (fend off, Parry, repel, stave off, to avert, to decline, to disclaim, to fence, to fence off, to fend off, to head off, to hold off, to keep off, to obviate, to stave off, to tide over, to turn away, to ward off, turn aside, ward off), elfordít (to angle, to avert, to deflect, to shunt, to slew, to slue, to switch, to turn, to turn away, to turn from, turn away). (various references)

Indonesian

menghindari (avoid, shun). (various references)

Italian

allontanare (depart, estrange, go off, remove, send away, stave off, turn away), stornare (cancel, countermand, divert, transfer, turn aside), scongiurare (adjure, avoid, beg, beseech, implore), evitare (avoid, avoid each other, avoidance, balk, decline, elude, escape, evade, flee, help, prevent, shirk, shun, stave off, to avoid), distogliere (alight, argue, deter, dissuade, distract, divert). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

背ける (to avert one's eyes, to turn one's face away), 逸らす (to avert, to turn away), 避ける (to avert, to avoid, to ward off), 目�'逸らす (to avert one's eyes, to look away), 人の目�'避ける (to avert peoples eyes), 免れる (to avert, to avoid, to be exempted, to be relieved from pain, to be rescued from, to elude, to escape from, to evade, to get rid of). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そむける (to avert one's eyes, to turn one's face away), そらす (to avert, to bend, to curve, to turn away, to warp), ひとのめ�'さける (to avert peoples eyes), まぬがれる (to avert, to avoid, to be exempted, to be relieved from pain, to be rescued from, to elude, to escape from, to evade, to get rid of), まぬかれる (to avert, to avoid, to be exempted, to be relieved from pain, to be rescued from, to elude, to escape from, to evade, to get rid of), さける (to avert, to avoid, to burst, to split, to tear, to ward off), め�'そらす (to avert one's eyes, to look away), よける (to avert, to avoid, to ward off). (various references)

Manx

shaghney (avoid, circumvent, circumvention, defer, deferment, delay, dodge, elude, escape, eschew, evade, obviate, postponement, prevent, renounce, renunciation, repudiate, shirk, shirking, shun, turn away, varnish). (various references)

Pig Latin

avertay

Portuguese

afastar (alienate, call away, depart, deviate, dispel, distract, diverge, divert, do away with, eliminate, estrange, fend, get rid of, hold off, keep away, keep off, lay off, make away, move away, obviate, relegate, remove, repel, retire, rid, separate, wean, withdraw), prevenir (avoid, caution, evade, forearm, forewarn, inform, obviate, prevent, previse, warn), impedir (arrest, balk, block, clash, clog, cramp, cumber, dam, debar, delay, detain, embarrass, estop, fetter, forbid, foreclose, hamper, hinder, hobble, impede, intercept, interfere, let, oppose, preclude, prevent, prohibit, put a stop, resist, restrain, set back, shackle, stop, thwart, trammel, withhold), evitar (abstain, avoid, bypass, elude, eschew, evade, fence, flee, foil, forbear, funk, give a cold shoulder to, keep off, parry, preclude, prevent, refrain, shirk, shun, stave off, to avoid, turn a cold shoulder to), desviar (deflect, depart, detour, deviate, digress, diverge, divert, err, fend, foil, head off, parry, shunt, swerve, ward off). (various references)

Romanian

abate de la (deter from, divert), preveni (admonish, apprise, apprize, caution, forewarn, give notice, head, help, hold off, warn), preîntâmpina (obviate, preclude, prevent), înlãtura (brush aside, cast away, clear, discard, dismiss, disseize, do away, do away with, eliminate, forbear, make a clean sweep of smth., move away, obviate, overbear, preclude, remove, save, seclude, supersede, supplant, take away, throw by), îndepãrta (carry off, cast, chase away, clean, clear, cut out, discard, dismiss, drive away, eliminate, estrange, fence off, lay, move away, remove, retire, ward off, withdraw). (various references)

Russian 

отвращать (alienate, fend off), отвлекать (distract, divert, head off). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sprečiti (arrest, balk, baulk, debar, disenable, forestall, head off, hinder, impeach, impede, inhibit, keep from, preclude, prevent, scotch), skrenuti (deflect, divert, shunt, sidetrack, switch, turn), odvratiti (answer back, discourage, dissuade, distract, divert, head off, turn away). (various references)

Spanish

apartar (abduce, alienate, allure, deviate, distract, divert, divide, draw aside, draw away, draw off, fob, head off, hold off, keep apart, look away, lure away, move aside, move away, move over, push away, refract, separate, set aside, shut off, stave off, take away, throw aside, to deviate, turn aside, turn away), alejar (alienate, banish, drive off, keep away, keep off, move away, put off, remove, take away), impedir de (baffle, cramp, hinder), evitar (avoid, balk, baulk, bypass, circumvent, elude, escape, eschew, evade, exclude, guard against, keep away, obviate, preclude, prevent, provide, save, shirk, shut out, sidestep, spare, stave off, ward off). (various references)

Swedish

avvända (distract, divert). (various references)

Thai

เบน, ป้องกันไม่ให้เกิ�". (various references)

Turkish

gidermek (allay, appease, clear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, efface, eliminate, fulfil, fulfill, gratify, iron out, obviate, quench, remove, repair, resolve, satisfy, slake, smooth away, smooth out, supply), başka tarafa çevirmek, önlemek (arrest, avoid, baffle, bank, circumvent, counterwork, estop, face up to, foil, foreclose, forestall, frustrate, get under control, head off, intercept, jugulate, keep back, obviate, occlude, preclude, prevent, prevent from, prohibit, repress, stay, suppress, thwart, ward, ward off), çevirmek (assemble, bowl, change to, commute, convert, decline, deflect, divert, encircle, enclose, exchange, flip, flip over, hedge in, hedge round, inclose, interpret, manage, point, point on, pull, render, revert, roll, roll over, screw, slew, slew round, slue, slue round, spin, surround, switch to, translate, translate into, turn, turn into, turn on, turn over, turn to, twiddle, twirl, upturn, whip, wind, wind up, zone). (various references)

Ukrainian

відхиляти (challenge, divert, ignore, lead off, negative, non-concur, override, reject, repel, repudiate, ride over, swerve, turn aside), відводити (abduct, allot, appoint, apportion, assign, drain, draw away, shunt, take back), відвертати (abstract, alienate, amuse, anticipate, award, head off, preclude, prevent, turn away, ward), запобігати (anticipate, forestall, safeguard). (various references)

Welsh

troi heibio, gochel (avoid, beware, shun). (various references)

abominaberis, abominabitur, abominabuntur, abominamini, abominandum, abominantur, abominaris, abominata, abominatam, abominati, abominatos, abominatum, abominatur, abominatus, avertere, averto, detestaberis, detestabitur, detestabuntur, detestanda, detestare, detestari, detestaris, detestatur, detestatus, detester, detestor, tutant, tutavit, tuto. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "avert": averted, averting, averts. (additional references)

Words ending with "avert": extravert. (additional references)

Words containing "avert": extraverted, extraverts, travertine, travertines. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Avert" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abvert, acert, aert, aftr, ager, agert, aier, aiver, amver, aperta, aqer, arert, avait, avar, avare, avast, avat, aveer, aveir, Aveiro, avent, averch, avere, averi, averr, avest, Avesta, avet, avhrr, avier, aviot, avir, avit, Avner, avor, avoret, avort, avr, Avrel, evret, favart, Javert, pvert, Savart, savert. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: trave.

-1 letter: aver, rate, rave, tare, tear, vera, vert.

-2 letters: are, art, ate, ave, ear, eat, era, eta, rat, ret, rev, tae, tar, tav, tea, var, vat, vet.

-3 letters: ae, ar, at, er, et, re, ta.

+1 letter: advert, averts, starve, tavern, thrave, travel, traves, varlet, vaster.

+2 letters: adverts, averted, bravest, gravest, harvest, levator, nervate, outrave, overact, overapt, overate, overeat, overfat, overtax, private, servant, starved, starver, starves, taverna, taverns, thraves, travels, variate, variety, varlets, varment, vastier, vaulter, vaunter, ventral, verdant, veritas, versant, vestral, veteran, vibrate, virgate, vitamer.

+3 letters: abortive, acervate, adverted, ambivert, antevert, averment, averting, bevatron, caveator, cavorted, cavorter, cervelat, creative, curative, derivate, deviator, durative, elevator, enervate, ergative, evocator, favorite, grievant, harvests, interval, levanter, levators, levirate, livetrap, navicert, outbrave, outraved, outraves, overacts, overbeat, overcast, overcoat, overeats, overfast, overhate, overheat, overlate, overneat, overpast, overrate, oversalt, overstay, overtake, overtalk, overtame, overtart, overtask, privater, privates, pyruvate, ravigote, reactive, relative, relevant, renovate, revenant, rotative, servants, starvers, stravage, takeover, tavernas, taverner, tolarjev, tractive, traveled, traveler, travelog, traverse, travesty, travoise, trivalve, tsarevna, tzarevna, valerate, variated, variates, varietal, varletry, varments, vaulters, vaultier, vaunters, venerate, ventrals, veracity, veratria, veratrin, veratrum, verbatim, versants, vertebra, vertical, vestiary, vestural, veterans, viatores, vibrated, vibrates, vicarate, vintager, violater, virgates, vitamers, vizirate, votaress, votaries, whatever.