Obviate

Word OBVIATE
Character 7
Hyphenation ob vi ate
Pronunciations /ˈɒbviˌeɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "Obviate"

What do we mean by obviate?

To keep from happening or render unnecessary. synonym: prevent. transitive verb

To meet.

To meet half-way, as difficulties or objections; hence, to meet and dispose of; clear out of the way; remove.

To meet in the way. transitive verb

To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary. transitive verb

To bypass a requirement or make it unnecessary; to avoid a future problem or difficult situation. verb

Do away with verb

Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening verb

To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required).

To avoid (a future problem or difficult situation).

One who obviates. That is, one who anticipates and eliminates dangers, difficulties, and disadvantages by effective measures. Urban Dictionary

ASSHOLE URETHA SHIT ACCIDENT A CELEBRATION Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Obviate

The word "obviate" in example sentences

Edit: In a (rare) moment of self-doubt I looked up 'obviate' wondering if it's one of those words I've either misheard or used incorrectly. ❋ Jonathan (2007)

Much comment has been made both pro and con, so I will here limit myself to a different angle of the story entirely, one that would obviate the need to trade killers for captured soldiers in the future. ❋ Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (2011)

Perhaps Gardner et al considered £2,480,750 a small price to pay to obviate a formal inquiry into the liquidation of a club he once ran but the CVA certainly leaves many unanswered questions. x-headThe football authorities have invested so much effort into building a case against third-party ownership of players that Sunday's failure to prove wrongdoing at Queen's Park Rangers was a blow for the Football Association. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Do you believe that the use of prosecutorial discretion, jury nullification, the necessity defense, executive clemency and any other mechanisms that are available to obviate or circumvent criminal statutes is unethical in all cases, without exception? and, uh, things like executive clemency are all firmly within the law. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Of course, the intention of this is allow con members to make informed choices for the Hugo awards; it does not obviate the need to support the authors of this material with real purchases that they get royalty monies for. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mr. Obama's jobs bill, which proposes $130 billion of aid for state and local governments, would obviate these reforms and take lawmakers off the hook for goosing workers' pensions in return for their political support. ❋ Allysia Finley (2011)

Mostly, I've narrowed it down to Lakeside or Cuernavaca, though my mind, regrettably, isn't narrow enough to obviate any changes that may include somewhere else. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If that can be done effectively, it can obviate massive military action. ❋ George Melloan (2011)

In order to obviate that, because money is fungible and budget-cutting is suddenly in vogue, you would think that government agencies would be aggressively trimming noncritical, nonlife-threatening expenditures and diverting scarce resources to genuinely pressing needs. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And if you support a no-exceptions statutory ban on torture, what do you think about the use of mechanisms to obviate or get around the law in exceptional cases – prosecutorial discretion, jury nullification, presidential pardon, etc.? ❋ Unknown (2009)

This new technique acts essentially as a 'non-invasive microscope' and may ultimately obviate the need for biopsy or surgery to repair the cartilage. ❋ Helene Pavlov (2010)

Any law enforcement agent who conducted a wiretap or private search would thereby always be presumptively guilty of a crime, and would have to cross his fingers and take his chances that prosecutors or jurors would ignore or obviate the law in his particular case. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Wikinvest co-founder Parker Conrad asserted in his pitch that Wikinvest and others might eventually obviate the financial services providers that rely on consumers not paying attention, or having opacity drive revenue in their products. ❋ Ben Mangan (2011)

David is an obviator of difficulties; we never have any trouble when he's around. At first Alex thought he had done a [forknuts] when the report appeared. But it turns out Jim had already taken credit for [the leak], saving him from potential embarrassment. The next day, Alex thanked the obviator for his [assistance]. ❋ The Ghost Of LBP (2013)

Defecation is the ACT OF SHITTING and SHITTING is the ACT OF REMOVAL where SHIT IS OBVIATED as you might say FECES is the vehicle of the ASSHOLE which is a NATURAL OBVIATOR. To be fair and equal our PISS is OBVIATED out also where the URETHA rejects the URINE held by [the STORAGE UNIT] BLADDER where that is the NATURAL OBVIATOR as it reaches capacity. If you SHIT in your pants SHIT FUN occurs as you got lots of [ENTROPY] to deal with , great smells and here is the KEY the NATURAL OBVIATOR that drives everyone away and most have activated their powerful GUILT COMPLEX and yes ANAL ALAN even though I AM SHIT I still can't break the SOCIETY DISAPPROVAL OF SMELLING SHITTY. When A JEWUSH HOMOSEXUAL PEDOPHILE SHITS OR PISSES HIS PANTS the NATURAL OBVIATOR is at work and the massive approval from everyone is overwhelming and they are all saying [THE MORE THE MERRIER]. ❋ BETE NOIRE ASSH0LE (2021)

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