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Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: avert

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# {{transitive}} To [[ward off]], or [[prevent]], the occurrence or effects of.

  

# {{transitive}} To [[ward off]], or [[prevent]], the occurrence or effects of.
 

#: ''How can the danger be '''averted'''?''

  

#: ''How can the danger be '''averted'''?''
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#* Milton
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#*: To '''avert''' his ire.
 

# {{intransitive|archaic}} To turn away.

  

# {{intransitive|archaic}} To turn away.
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#* Cold and '''averting''' from our neighbor's good. - Thomson

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#* Thomson
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#*: Cold and '''averting''' from our neighbour's good.
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#* Francis Bacon
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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.
   
 

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Revision as of 01:00, 1 April 2013

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English

Etymology

From Old French avertir ("turn, direct, avert ; turn the attention, make aware"), from Latin āvertere, present active infinitive of āvertō, from ab + vertō ("to turn").

Verb

avert (third-person singular simple present averts, present participle averting, simple past and past participle averted)

  1. (transitive) To turn aside or away.
    To avert the eyes from an object.
  2. (transitive) To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.
    How can the danger be averted?
  3. (intransitive, archaic) To turn away.
    • Thomson
      Cold and averting from our neighbour's good.
    • Francis Bacon
      When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church.

Quotations

  • To avert his ire. - John Milton
  • When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church. - Francis Bacon
  • Till ardent prayer averts the public woe. - Prior

Derived terms

Synonyms

Translations

References

Anagrams

Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin apertus.

Adjective

avert m f averta, m plural averts, f plural avertas)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Vallader) open
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