Crossword-Solution: AVERTED
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Averted | imp. & p. p. | of Avert |
| Averted | a. | Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “AVERTED”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Prevented, as a crisis | 1 answer |
| Warded off; turned away | 1 answer |
| Stopped from happening, like a disaster | 1 answer |
| Staved off | 1 answer |
| Like some eyes and disasters | 1 answer |
| Kept from happening | 2 answers |
| Directed elsewhere | 2 answers |
| Forestalled. | 3 answers |
| Turned away | 3 answers |
| Prevented | 4 answers |
| Redirected | 4 answers |
| Fended (off) | 5 answers |
| Turned aside | 6 answers |
| Warded (off) | 6 answers |
| Dodged | 7 answers |
| Sidestepped | 8 answers |
| BE TURNED OFF BY | 10 answers |
| crisis | 63 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AVERTED (5)
The food situation is precarious; during the 1980s famine has been averted only through international relief.
That unsunned snow in the matron’s bosom, and the burning shame on Hester Prynne’s—what had the two in common? Or, once more, the electric thrill would give her warning—“Behold Hester, here is a companion!” and, looking up, she would detect the eyes of a young maiden glancing at the scarlet letter, shyly and aside, and quickly averted, with a faint, chill crimson in her cheeks as if her purity were somewhat sullied by that momentary glance.
Why do you consider it at all, if you’re not sure? Why are you here with me now?” Her face was half-averted.
The food situation remains precarious; during the 1980s famine was averted only through international relief.
The local citizens deliberately picked a fight with the men in order to "put them in their place." A riot was narrowly averted.
Quotes with AVERTED (3)
Shrieking Brooke’s name as loudly as I could, out in the corridor, I brought her running quickly to my room.‘What’s happened, what’s wrong?’ she immediately cried concerned, legging it up the stairs two at a time. She appeared breathless outside the kitchen door. Brian appeared sleepily at his door too, awoken by the noise, and watched us.‘She’s moving,’ I cried.‘What? Flutters like before?’‘No more, here feel.’ I grabbed her hand and pushed it down onto myexposed belly. Bria…
I am not ready to think of him as either insane or evil, to consider in full how I could love and have a child with such a person. I am not ready to think about anything, except ways in which this may still be averted.
She averted his eyes, but not before he recognized the pain in them, a tormented and languished gaze, a stare preserved for people who were able to love deeply enough that they could be destroyed by it. For a moment, he knew that gaze intimately, remembering it from a time long gone. The ache of a shattered belief once known. He knew that feeling.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 31 times in crossword archives (1964–2022).