How to pronounce “avert”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To turn aside or away.
• (transitive) To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.
• (intransitive, archaic) To turn away.
• [Adjective]
• open (not closed)

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