avert
/əˈvɝt/ verb C1- To turn aside or away. · I averted my eyes while my friend typed in her password.
- To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of. · How can the danger be averted?
He/she/it averts · Past averted · Past participle averted · -ing form averting
Verb forms
- Base form
- avert
- He/she/it
- averts
- Past
- averted
- Past participle
- averted
- -ing form
- averting
From the library
He does not say so, but I can read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes.
“Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I could gather together that I was able to avert another public exposure.
His arm was round her, but it seemed to me that she was straining away from him with her face averted.
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