Similar words: diverting, reverting, converting, asserting, advertising, disconcerting, advertising campaign, avert. Meaning: [ə'vɜːt] 
n. 1. the act of preventing something from occurring 2. the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away.
n. 1. the act of preventing something from occurring 2. the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away. 
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31. A Soviet ballistics officer draws the rightconclusion -- that a satellite report indicating incoming U.S. nuclearmissiles is, in fact, a false alarm -- thereby averting a potential nuclear holocaust.
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