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   avert

   /əˈvəːt/

   verb

   • 1. turn away (one's eyes or thoughts): "she averted her eyes while we made stilted conversation" Similar turn asideturn awayturn to one side
   • 2. prevent or ward off (an undesirable occurrence): "talks failed to avert a rail strike" Similar preventstopavoidnip in the budstave offhead offward offforestallpreclude

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘divert or deter someone from a place or a course of action’): from Latin avertere, from ab- ‘from’ + vertere ‘to turn’; reinforced by Old French avertir.

   Derivatives

   • 1. avertable adjective

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • A

     1

   • V

     4

   • E

     1

   • R

     1

   • T

     1

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