To avert is to turn away or to prevent. You might avert your gaze or avert a disaster — either way, you are avoiding something
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.
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
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It was obvious that she was extremely attracted to him, and extremely nervous about it, because she would look him in the eye for a few moments, and then avert her gaze and look at everything BUT him.When the truth is just too horrible to face, the mind will go to great lengths to avert it, which, ironically, instead of protecting the psyche, only prevents a person from ever healing.I didn't realize he was drunk until he sped through a red light, only just managing to avert a serious accident.She saw me, but then chose to avert her eyes and pretend she hadn't.I saw the child running toward the street just in time to avert certain disaster.More than once in my life, modesty has forced me to avert my eyes.
aversion
Averted is a verb. It's the past tense of avert.
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.
The antonym for the word "gaze" is "avert."
avert
escape, divert, deflect, avert, prevent
A warning system could have averted the disaster. In an attempt to avert a head-on collision, she swerved and struck a tree.
"Lilangin" is a Tagalog word that means to avert or avoid something.
to roll your eyes or to ignore someone
avert sentence
AVERT was created in 1986.
I was able to narrowly avert an accident.
The noun form of avert is aversion.