Avert

What do we mean by avert?

To turn away. transitive verb

To keep from happening; prevent: synonym: prevent. transitive verb

To turn away; turn or cause to turn off or away: as, to avert the eyes from an object: now seldom with a personal object.

To give a turn or direction to; direct.

To ward off; prevent the occurrence or happening of (evil or something threatened).

To oppose; view with aversion.

To turn away.

To turn away. intransitive verb

To turn aside, or away; ; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; “To avert his ire.” transitive verb

To turn aside or away. verb

To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of. verb

To turn away. verb

Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening verb

Turn away or aside verb

To turn aside or away.

To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.

To turn away.

To turn away.

Words that are spelled similarly to avert:
avert, alert, aver, overt, advert, evert, vert, avery, avers, avent, acert, apert, javert, avere, avera, abert, avrt, averi, avern, avet, aert.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word avert:
catastrophe, calamity, misfortune, impending, multiverse, omen, bloodshed, disaster, gaze, crises, apocalypse, prophecy, danger, wrath, imminent, famine, takeover, crisis, suspicion, tragedy, harm, collapse, bankruptcy, timeline, collision, hiv, evil, confusion, destruction, ecological, threat, strike, fate, chaos, relegation, conflicts, coup, threats, eyes, possibility, org, threatened, conflict, consequences, nuclear, defeat, closure, future, negotiations, prevent, potential, debt, invasion, violence, risk, aids, war, save, situation.

Words that rhyme with avert:
desert, dessert, hurt, revert, assert, alert, overt, exert, convert, introvert, curt, inert, skirt, shirt, concert, pervert, subvert, divert, dirt, flirt, pert, insert, turret, squirt, extrovert, evert, invert, spurt, vert, girt, disconcert, blurt, quirt, peart, chert, bert, kurt, sweatshirt, wert, reassert, burt, dilbert, erte, gert, outskirt, hirt, undershirt, miniskirt, pay dirt, nightshirt, hert, hair shirt, unhurt, purt, kirt, birt, wirt, stuffed shirt, polo shirt, tee shirt, hobble skirt, dress shirt, sea squirt, ballet skirt, lampert, on the alert, frozen dessert, burtt, boisvert, full skirt, grass skirt, sport shirt, evening shirt, herdt, gelatin dessert, hit the dirt, gathered skirt, gumpert, berte, mcgirt, thibert, hurtt, humpert, kuhrt, mcguirt, mcwhirt, schwerdt, vanwert.

Adjectives that are often used to describe avert:
french, long, attest, possible, humbled, important.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective avert:
disaster, war, calamity, suspicion, death, danger, protection, eyes.

Consonant match to avert:
overt, ovate, evert, evite, yvette, have it, ovett, evatt, evett, evitt, au vert, au vote, ev it, eve et, eve it, halve it, have hit, heave it, herve et, hive it, hove it, irvette, of hot, of it, ovitt.

Words that sound like avert:
avert, evert, averred, overt, ouvert, ouverte, averts, averter, obvert, overed, avard, ever, effort, every, covered, assert, revert, divert, invert, averse, everett, hovered, yvette, evr, aford, evers, evry, a word, airt, evet, ivette, yrt, ivar, evra, ofd, evette, everette, evett, evit, everitt, evar, levert, everts, evatt, evitt, evarts, evt, avait, evat, over, art, ivory, avery, ovary, ort, covert, advert, iver, aver, oeuvre, ivor, ivery, aart, javert, oart, avers, ivers, oort, evite, avra, avary, artt, eifert, ivry, ivr, avar, avit, ovar, avt, ivrit, ivre, averett, offert, -art, avro, ohrt, iert, avot, avr, avarie, averitt, jouvert, avars, avri, couvert, averette, avre, ajvar, artw, avat.