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To avert is to turn away or to prevent. You might avert your gaze or avert a disaster — either way, you are avoiding something
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AVERT was created in 1986.
I was able to narrowly avert an accident.
The past tense of avert is averted.
The noun form of avert is aversion.
"I had to avert my eyes, the sun was so blinding."
I will drive on the sidewalk to avert the loss of life. Please avert your eyes while I undress.
Averted is a verb. It's the past tense of avert.
The verb avert does not have a corresponding noun, it does, however, have a corresponding adjective: avertable.
away; from; off; to turn away or aside from; to avert from an accident. EX/: When Jane got in a plane crash she tried to avert from the accident. -XOXO ChristyCarla :)P
close In some contexts, the word court would be the antonym for avert. For example, by his wise policies, he was able to avert disaster. By his foolish policies, he courted disaster.