Found 3 items, similar to Averted.
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Definition: avert
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: avert
avert
v 1: prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening;
“Let's
avoid a confrontation”;
“head off a confrontation”;
“avert a strike” [syn:
debar,
obviate,
deflect,
head off
,
stave off,
fend off,
avoid,
ward off]
2: turn away or aside;
“They averted their eyes when the King
entered” [syn:
turn away]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Averted
Averted
\A*vert"ed\, a.
Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also,
offended; unpropitious.
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Who scornful pass it with averted eye. --Keble.
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Avert
\A*vert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Averted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Averting.] [L. avertere; a, ab + vertere to turn: cf. OF.
avertir. See
Verse, n.]
To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object;
to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as,
how can the danger be averted?
“To avert his ire.”
--Milton.
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When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many
discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth
avert them from the church. --Bacon.
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Till ardent prayer averts the public woe. --Prior.
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