Meaning & use
Averting
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Preventing something undesirable from happening, or turning something, such as the eyes or attention, away.
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Quick thinking by the pilot was credited with averting a serious accident.
She kept averting her gaze whenever the topic came up.
A note on using this word
From the Latin 'avertere,' meaning to turn away, the word carries the literal sense of turning aside as well as the figurative sense of preventing.
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