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词汇 averted
释义 averted
past simple and past participle ofavert
avert
verb[ T ]
uk /əˈvɜːt/ us /əˈvɝːt/

avertverb[T] (PREVENT)


to prevent something bad from happening: 防止,避免
to avert a crisis/conflict/strike/famine避免危机/冲突/罢工/饥荒
to avert disaster/economic collapse防止灾难/经济崩溃
Synonym
avoid
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to prevent something from happening
preventVaccination will prevent the spread of the disease.
avoidLabel the boxes to avoid confusion.
stopThis should stop any further trouble.
avertWe had to act quickly to avert disaster.
prohibitBehavioural problems in the classroom prohibit learning.
checkChildren are being vaccinated in an attempt to check the spread of the disease.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Preventing and impeding
anti-drug
anti-jamming
avoid
avoidable
avoidably
bottleneck
derail
fireproof
guard against something
hamper
hang
have someone/something hanging round your neckidiom
head off
preclusive
prejudice
prevent
preventable
preventative
scuttle
smother

avertverb[T] (TURN)


to turn away your eyes or thoughts: 转移(目光、想法等);把…转(向别处)
I averted my gaze/eyes while he dressed.他穿衣服的时候我把目光转向一边。
We tried to avert our thoughts from our massive financial problems.我们尽量不去想我们面临的严重财政问题。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Using the eyes
accommodate
accommodation
all eyes are on someone/somethingidiom
astigmatic
beholder
cast
chart
corner
discern
fix
glare
have a butcher'sidiom
penetrating
re-see
re-sight
rest on someone/something
resurvey
rubbernecking
sighting
tab

Examples of averted


averted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Therefore, the costs averted by treatment are likely to be substantially higher.
Both countries mobilized their armies, but pressure from the international community averted further escalation.
How was major inter-state violence, when it looked incipient, averted?
A source of variation among studies estimating the proportion of potentially avoidable arthroscopies is the criteria used to consider that the procedure would be averted.
An economic evaluation was performed based on cost-effectiveness ratios (per averted arthroscopy), including direct and indirect costs.
Persons threatened by psychiatric disorder because of temperamental attributes like neuroticism, may remain at risk of somatic problems even if mental illness is averted.
Inefficient decisions may result when households take defensive action to avert damage that might have been averted more cheaply through public actions.
There we asked whether it was moral for a state to inflict some draconian punishment now if it thus averted more draconian punishment later on.
Eventually, through the narrowly averted death of her son - who, it turns out, is actually their son - the two come together again.
In the results section, the authors estimate the number of cases of childhood morbidity that could be averted in each pollution clean-up scenario.
He averted syncope by tensing the muscle of his arms and legs or bending forwards as if to tie his shoelaces.
For most studies, however, the threshold was approximately 20% to 30% of averted arthroscopies.
What forces and policies made it possible for potential instability to be averted at both domestic and inter national levels?
The control children showed a gaze facilitation effect in that they were better able to detect faces with direct gaze than averted gaze.
Rather, they believe that catastrophe was averted only by their safety behaviours.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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