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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aversion
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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.
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.
to roll your eyes or to ignore someone
avert sentence
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."