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avert Tweet Definition of avert Like Definition of avert on Facebook
verb 
  1. To turn aside, or away
To the eyes from an object.
  1. To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of
How can the danger be averted?.
  1. (intransitive, archaic) To turn away.
  • Cold and averting from our neighbor's good. - Thomson.
Etymology: Latin avertere; a, ab + vertere to turn. Compare Old French avertir. See verse (nous).

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