Crossword-Solution: OBVIATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Obviate | v. t. | To meet in the way. |
| Obviate | v. t. | To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “OBVIATE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Anticipate and bypass | 1 answer |
| Render unnecessary | 1 answer |
| Make moot | 1 answer |
| Anticipate and prevent and unnecessary action | 1 answer |
| Take advance action against | 4 answers |
| make unnecessary | 9 answers |
| BOREDOM LYING AROUND IN BIKINI, UNNECESSARY | 10 answers |
| Prelude | 18 answers |
| Do away with | 23 answers |
| Preclude | 33 answers |
| strangle | 39 answers |
| contain | 43 answers |
| Prevent | 53 answers |
| Forestall | 53 answers |
| Extinguish | 55 answers |
| Kill | 61 answers |
| Check | 138 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OBVIATE (5)
The risk of injuring you through your moving was too great not to compel me to tell you an untruth to obviate it.” She shuddered.
But there are better chairs than this,—mahogany, black walnut, rosewood, spring-seated and damask-cushioned, with varied slopes, and innumerable artifices to make them easy, and obviate the irksomeness of too tame an ease,—a score of such might be at Judge Pyncheon’s service.
Seven sequential propagandized statements went unchallenged by the three senior committee members throughout the morning, and Senator Rickfield went out of his way to thank the speakers for their time, adding that he was personally convinced the Govern- ment was indeed doing more than necessary to obviate such con- cerns.
That will obviate all difficulties you know; and from _us_ I really think, my dear Jane, you can have no scruple to accept such an accommodation.” “You are extremely kind,” said Jane; “but I cannot give up my early walk.
When Lady Ashton sat down, she was not surprised to find that her daughter had left the apartment, and she herself followed, eager to obviate any impression which might have been made upon her nerves by an incident so likely to affect them as the mysterious transposition of the portraits.
Quotes with OBVIATE (3)
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.
The mechanism of the clock was enclosed in a box resembling a large cupboard, but I was disappointed with the workings. They were much smaller than I had anticipated. The clock was worked by heavy weights suspended on long cables. My father picked up a handle like the crank handle of a car and wound them up. There were two of them. One to work the hands, the other controlling the hammer which struck out the hours on a large bell. Then the mousetraps were set, Not to catch mic…
Characters should be interchangeable as between one book and another. The entire corpus of existing literature should be regarded as a limbo from which discerning authors could draw their characters as required, creating only when they failed to find a suitable existing puppet. The modern novel should be largely a work of reference. Most authors spend their time saying what has been said before — usually said much better. A wealth of references to existing works would acquain…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1991–2020).