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Crossword-Solution: AVERT 5 letters, 123 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Avert n. To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an
object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how
can the danger be averted? "To avert his ire."
Avert v. i. To turn away.

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Word Anagrams
AVERT anagram TAVER, TRAVE, VATER

We have 123 clues for the answer “AVERT”

Clue Answers
"___ your eyes!" 1 answer
"___ your gaze!" 1 answer
Avoid, as a crisis 1 answer
Cast away, as one's eyes 1 answer
Circumvent travel no end 1 answer
Dodge or deflect 1 answer
Dodge successfully 1 answer
Duck with success 1 answer
Forestall, as a crisis 1 answer
Head off, as disaster 1 answer
Manage to stop 1 answer
Narrowly avoid 1 answer
Not let happen 1 answer
Prevent a disaster 1 answer
Prevent the occurrence of 1 answer
Prevent, as a crisis 1 answer
Prevent, as a disaster 1 answer
Prevent, as danger 1 answer
Prevent, as disaster 1 answer
Prevent, like a crisis 1 answer
Redirect, as one's eyes 1 answer
Shield from 1 answer
Stave off, as a disaster 1 answer
Thwart, as a crisis 1 answer
To turn away 1 answer
Turn aside, as a gaze 1 answer
Turn aside, as one's eyes 1 answer
Turn away or aside 1 answer
Turn away, as a crisis 1 answer
Turn away, as a gaze 1 answer
Turn away, as eyes 1 answer
Turn away, as one's eyes 1 answer
Turn away, as one's gaze 1 answer
Turn away^AVER 1 answer
Turn to miss 1 answer
What good fencers do 1 answer
prevent from occurring 1 answer
Dodge, in a way 2 answers
Stop from happening 2 answers
Keep from occurring 3 answers
guard against 3 answers
Forfend 4 answers
Prevent from happening 4 answers
Manage to avoid 5 answers
Turn away from 5 answers
Push aside. 6 answers
foin 6 answers
Keep from happening 7 answers
Nip in the bud 9 answers
INCUR (ant.) 9 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AVERT (5)

For hee who tempts, though in vain, at least asperses The tempted with dishonour foul, suppos’d Not incorruptible of Faith, not prooff Against temptation: thou thy self with scorne And anger wouldst resent the offer’d wrong, Though ineffectual found: misdeem not then, If such affront I labour to avert From thee alone, which on us both at once The Enemie, though bold, will hardly dare, Or daring, first on mee th’ assault shall light.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The corpse had vanished, not interred in earth, But strewn with dust, as if by one who sought To avert the curse that haunts the unburied dead: Of hound or ravening jackal, not a sign.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
Why was she so afraid of men? Why did she shrink into herself and avert her face whenever a man passed her chair? Thea thought she knew; of course, she knew.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Then Jellyband threw open the door, still stupidly and blindly hoping to avert the catastrophe which he felt was in the air, and the same low, musical voice said, with a merry laugh and mock consternation,— “B-r-r-r-r! I am as wet as a herring! _Dieu!_ has anyone ever seen such a contemptible climate?” “Suzanne, come with me at once—I wish it,” said the Comtesse, peremptorily.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
Some one raised a cry: “Tardos Mors is dead—a thousand years to John Carter, Jeddak of Helium.” As I heard that and saw the ugly attitude of the men of Helium toward the soldiers of Zat Arras, I knew that only a miracle could avert a clash that would end in civil war.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with AVERT (3)

Chronicling the passage of whales has led me to an understanding that we, as a species, now sand at a crossroads. We can face the possibility of our own extinction and work to avert it, or we can flow the more traditional path of earths organisms and fall blindly over the edge. If there's one trait that characterised human beings, it's the will to survive. This, I believe, will motivate us to work with the natural world rather than opposite it, which is all we need to do to g…
Alexandra Morton Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us
To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.
Akira Kurosawa
Do not avert your eyes. It is important that you see this. It is important that you feelthis.
Kamand Kojouri
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 407 times in crossword archives (1957–2025).