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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61. Anciently , in dietetics field, the primary research tasks are all about how to avert the lack of alimentation.
62. "Several rich governments are guilty of willful neglect as the aid effort to avert catastrophe in East Africa limps along due to an $800 million shortfall, " an Oxfam statement said.
63. They are trying to avert a strike by the actors.
64. The United States Senate and House of Representatives are due to vote on a bill to raise the limit on US borrowing ahead of a deadline to avert an unprecedented debt default.
65. Some improvement Methods : Were obtained for avert the negative effects.
66. A $ 30 billion bailout by the IMF helped Brazil avert the disaster.
67. Several governments announced emergency stimulus packages intended to avert recession.
68. There must be immediate action if total chaos is to be avert.
69. To avert the risk of judges' abuse of their power, a "due-procedure judicial activism paradigm" should be adopted so as to render appropriate regulation as well as protection.
70. To avert marring the environment in the westerly, strict oversight of economic development and cerebration in the Hesperian places is necessary.
71. To avert a repeat, the European Central Bank on its own, and with help from its U.S. counterpart, is pumping short-term credit into the European banking system.
72. Another antebellum president, James Buchanan, is also taken to task for failing to avert the south's secession.
73. Officials of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association have been meeting top government officials in Abuja to avert the planned strike.
74. The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa once said, "To be an artist means never to avert your eyes."
75. Our task is to achieve liberation and to avert subjugation.
76. Luckily, the team managed to avert disaster by rustling up a cake with only half a day to go, still managing to beat all other cupcake records in the process.
77. AT CTU , it's up to Jack and Henderson to avert the crisis.
78. For his life he could not avert that excess of emotion.
79. And that kind of communication will help to avert that.
80. When someone tells a lie, he will usually avert his eyes.
81. His finals were something from which he preferred to avert his mind.
82. Not even the muse Calliope, the muse of epic poetry(Sentence dictionary), was in a position to avert a human tragedy like this.
83. They discovered the danger in time, and made shift to avert it.
84. She was so striking that I had to avert my somewhat startled eyes.
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