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Definition of Averting

1. Noun. The act of preventing something from occurring. "Averting danger was his responsibility"

2. Noun. The act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away. "Averting her gaze meant that she was angry"

Definition of Averting

1. Verb. (present participle of avert) ¹

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Definition of Averting

1. avert [v] - See also: avert

Lexicographical Neighbors of Averting

aversive therapy aversive training aversively aversiveness aversivenesses aversives avert avertable averted averter

averters avertible avertiments avertin averting (current term) avertress avertresses averts avg. avgas

avgases avgolemono avgolemonos

Literary usage of Averting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Text-book of the Patent Laws of the United States of America by Albert Henry Walker (1904)
"Defences by way of confession and avoidance. 679. averting effect of ... 680. averting effect of public acquiescence. 681. averting preliminary ..."

2. Text-book of the Patent Laws of the United States of America by Albert Henry Walker (1904)
"averting effect of prior adjudication. 680. averting effect of public acquiescence. 681. averting preliminary injunction by proving repeal or expiration of ..."

3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1872)
"ON A MEANS OF averting THE SPREAD OF SMALLPOX. Dr John Day of Geelong, in a paper read before the Medical Society of Victoria, has suggested the employment ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"In ethnic custom one of the universally employed means of averting the harmful action of demons is the use of the magic ..."

5. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1887)
"... called the ' defence' of ' the Flagstaff Bastion,' there for avert- might be measures well fitted to save it by averting, ..."

6. International Relations: Eight Lectures Delivered in the United States in by James Bryce Bryce (1922)
"... VIII OTHER POSSIBLE METHODS FOR averting WAR WE HAVE seen, as all who have considered the subject have seen, that valuable as the methods of arbitration ..."

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