Synonyms for avert
əˈvɜrtavert

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1. debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, avoid, ward offverb

   prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening

   "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"

   Synonyms:
   forfend, avoid, eliminate, ward off, distract, keep off, bend, suspend, obviate, invalidate, fend off, stave off, block, nullify, debar, exclude, head off, forefend, annul, quash, rid of, parry, bar, turn away, deflect, void

2. avert, turn awayverb

   turn away or aside

   "They averted their eyes when the King entered"

   Synonyms:
   deflect, head off, refuse, obviate, forfend, forefend, avoid, turn down, stave off, fend off, bend, turn away, debar, ward off, reject

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1. avertverb

   Synonyms:
   turn aside, turn away, turn off

2. avertverb

   Synonyms:
   prevent, divert, preclude, FOREFEND, ward off, keep off

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1. List of paraphrases for "avert":

   avoid, prevent, avoiding, divert

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

1. AVERT

   Synonyms:
   Cardiology Atorvastatin VErsus Revascularization Treatments Cardiovascular surgery Artificial Valve Endocarditis Reduction Trial

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1. Bob Perciasepe:

   For too long it's been too easy for both the U.S. and China to hide behind one another, people on both sides pointed to weak action abroad to delay action at home. This announcement hopefully puts those excuses behind us. We'll only avert the worst risks of climate change by acting together.

2. James Highsmith:

   That is the peak of it all, everyone there is emotionally charged. And what we do is not so much that we intervene. What we are doing is observing. We recognize who is the most hothead and who is the one we can…single out as one of the calm heads. The ones we can talk to, to use as a bridge, so to speak, to get inside and try to talk to these youngsters to try to avert retaliation.

3. The Ladsous memo:

   Current planning considers that any United Nations uniformed deployment would be a measure of last resort, where political dialogue and preventative deployments have failed to avert widespread conflict and where no first-responder-nation or coalition-of-the-willing has stepped forward, but a truly worst-case scenario will result in a scale of violence beyond the United Nations capacity to protect.

4. Scott Hadland:

   There is a huge gap here where there is an enormous need for opioid overdose reversal, and yet naloxone is not getting to the places that it needs to be, in my expert opinion, ready availability of naloxone in US households could avert numerous, if not many, overdose deaths that are currently occurring on a daily basis right now.

5. Jeremy Farrar:

   It's essential that this new body is accountable and can show leadership in the face of emerging health threats, with the authority and independence to act quickly when needed, the support of the global community is also crucial if we are to avert another catastrophe on the scale of Ebola.