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Meanings of averting in English

The act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away.

        Usage of averting in English
        1
        A deal is key to averting a long and messy legal standoff.
        Reuters
        2
        The government temporized-triedvarious methods in the hope of averting the storm.
        A Little Girl in Old Boston
        3
        Only the police, which arrived in time, succeeded in averting the catastrophe.
        The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories
        4
        They said that Congress should focus on averting the cuts from sequestration.
        Reuters
        5
        Alexia got a hand around her arm in quick order, averting catastrophe.
        Timeless
        6
        The very warning might be the means of averting such a fate.
        Love's Final Victory / Ultimate Universal Salvation on the Basis...
        7
        Here even a servant of God prays for the averting of judgment.
        The Apology of the Augsburg Confession
        8
        And they were now bent on averting a clash between the two.
        Port O' Gold / A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts
        9
        Then she got up, averting her face and looking about the room.
        The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2
        10
        He smiled his bittersweet smile, bowing according to form, averting his eyes.
        Cara mia - book one of the immortyl revolution
        11
        I did so suspiciously, and without averting my eyes from my visitors.
        A Gentleman of France: Being the Memoirs of Gaston de Bonne Sieu...
        12
        Rosamund pursed her lips a little, averting her eyes as she answered:
        Will Warburton
        13
        Edgar was walking down the aisle, neither blinking nor averting his gaze.
        The story of edgar sawtelle
        14
        Hewett asked, averting his eyes and assuming a tone of half-absent indifference.
        The Nether World
        15
        And welcome, my beloved son, Ki warbled and bowed, averting eye contact.
        Genellan: planetfall
        16
        He stood foolishly by, twisting his hands, averting his eyes here, there.
        Son of a witch: volume two in the wicked years
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        Averting through the time
        Averting across language varieties
        Ireland
        Common
        United Kingdom
        Less common
        United States of America
        Less common