Synonym: avoid, prevent, prohibit, turn away. Similar words: waver, average, slavery, covert, subvert, divert, revert, advert. Meaning: [ə'vɜːt] v. 1. prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening 2. turn away or aside.
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31. The spotlight is shining briefly on this beautiful, blood-soaked country, and we should not avert our eyes.
32. Computer system users can not control risk management decisions, but suffer big losses when inadequate protection fails to avert catastrophe.
33. Neither of us cries but we are obviously repressing deep emotions, and peo-ple, sensing this, avert their gaze.
34. Questions 27 and 28 created the very crisis they were meant to avert.
35. Spencer waved vigorously to avert a second major accident and was eventually spotted and taken on board.
36. The passenger in the railway carriage would drop his head into his newspaper and avert his eyes from the window.
37. Talks will be held today in a final attempt to avert strike action.
38. Nigel Clough did more than anyone to avert a crisis for his old man.
39. Morliere, anxious to avert an explosion, reassured Valluy that the ultimatum was unnecessary[sentencedict.com], since hostilities had stopped.
40. I wish I had power, just power enough to avert my eyes.
41. And, over the years, he had learned to avert his face, to sidestep, to damp down the fires.
42. Leading up to all this, there were days when we spent 30 straight hours trying to avert a strike.
43. Targets for intervention. Primary prevention is thus directed towards the improvement of social conditions, in order to avert client status.
44. Muttering some vulgar exorcism to avert the jinx, Juron tore the panel open.
45. It may already be too late to avert another disaster.
46. They avert their eyes when they pass her in the hall.
47. This may be the wrong time for the party to avert its gaze.
48. Embattled Mr Major did manage to avert an immediate world trade war.
49. At a fairly young age I learnt to sniff out danger and step into choppy conversations to skilfully avert disaster.
50. The futures markets were born to avert the risk.
51. He apologized to avert trouble.
52. I would do what I could to avert it.
53. He could only avert his eyes; he had never seen such an ugly sight.
54. The modern tariff of sugarplum and accumulation are rooted in medieval England. To avert creature acknowledged along the temporary spirits(Sentencedict), people would dress up in masks whenever they left family.
55. Can even sacrificial flesh avert your doom? Can you then exult?
56. We will have to pay later for what we borrowed to avert a crisis.
57. It is shown that employees may avert longevity-risk while they are exposed to ephemerality-risk, principle-agent risk and regulatory risk with access to the occupational pension schemes.
58. Avert your eyes the right side the road and the white line as a guide.
59. Each of the three powers which now divide the world is in fact un conquerable , and could only become conquerable through slow demographic changes which a government with wide powers can easily avert.
60. This grave event did not avert the personal crisis between them.
More similar words: waver, average, slavery, covert, subvert, divert, revert, advert, aversion, traverse, convert, poverty, culvert, over there, on average, quavering, cavernous, vertical, diverted, inverted, extrovert, advertise, overthrow, converted, antislavery, inadvertent, nevertheless, advertising, advertisement, inadvertently.